A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.
(from the short story The Honorary Shepherds)...you can't be kicked out of a faith. Faith starts inside your heart and ends up in eternity. All you can be kicked out of is a building, which is the bus stop of faith, sort of, and what's a building?
Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.