Then that basically proves my point. Thank you.
Christians believe what each of them want to believe, that means you are no longer a Christian if you do not stick to your roots of the religion. That means you are inventing something of your own.
NOOB.

Anyway i'm off. Have a nice day everyone.

Right my point is that if you lie to them about Santa Claus and Tooth Fairy or that the babies come from the stork, when they grow up and are 18, they will have an option to quit believing it or keep believing it, but like you said it is irrelevant to their future and it leaves them with a choice. However if you are raised as a christian, you have no more choice, your parents are christians, you are made to go to church on sundays, and because you were raised like that all your life, when you are 18, you are most likely not to make a choice to refuse christianity because that was what you were taught your whole life, your choice was taken away from you subliminaly, during the 18 years of your life you were made to be someone you might have not wanted to be. For example I was raised in a christian family, but they didn't baptise me and left me with a choice for when I became 18 years of age I did have my own choice. And i refused religion. This is because they gave me a choice, they showed me the religious side of life, but I've never been made to go church on sunday, unless it was my choice to go.

if you are raised as a christian, you have no more choice

I was raised in a christian family, blahblah left me with a choice blahblah I did have my own choice

Positive lessons from religion:
Exodus 20:12-17
Matthew 7:12

which are also found similarly in other religions

Let's take christianity as an example here.
Here are a few quotes from the bible:

"if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women.." - encouraging rape, and murder.

"If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her" - rape + marry? Where's the logic in that?

..you Christians should read the bible once in a while.

And what is preventing us from teaching children these lessons without also instilling in them a belief in an imaginary, omnipotent bearded guy?

And what is preventing us from teaching children these lessons without also instilling in them a belief in an imaginary, omnipotent bearded guy?