I learned later that the more I know, the more I know how little I know...
I can confirm that.
(please forgive my little Lent joke)
I forgive you for every joke. Jokes are very easy to forgive - LoL
almost all true believers just happened to be born where their true religion was the dominant faith. What luck!
But of course. How could it be otherwise? You can be aware of the coping mechanism and still want to practice and even find everything in the tradition that you learnt as a child and that gave stability to the adults around you: comfort, confidence, refuge, community.