Mass-Market Epiphany

I need to display some family history.
My paternal great grandfather caught the religion Of his time.
He went to divinity school and spent his life as an Episcopal preacher.
As a young man he rode circuit in Colorado. His loop included Cripple Creek during its gold rush.
When he settled, He founded the church in Scribner, Nebraska.
His wife inherited enough money to give their children as much education as they wished. The oldest became a civil engineer. The second, my grandfather, an electrical engineer, the third, a surgeon and a missionary, the fourth was lawyer, the girl married a professor and stayed a believer. "When the role is called up yonder, several of my brothers will be greatly surprised"
My grandfather and his father fought over evolution. and there was an estrangement.
My great grandfather lost his church in 1918. He could not favor our entry into the debacle in Europe.
He came east to move in with my grandfather and his family.
He took on the nurture of the children.
He paid my father ten cents a "book" to memorize the King James.
He would drag the group to various apostolic churches of a Sunday. He very much wanted to witness a miracle.
My father, as a boy, sang in the choir.

One of my maternal greats was a founder of Colgate.
My maternal grandmother was a Syracuse grad and married another. (04)
She retired as a Liberian from Colgate - Rochester divinity school.

Religion was not a small part of my parents lives. They found that they did not believe. They decided not to inflict arbitrary faith on us, their children.
The Unitarian Church would support them in this. They joined.

As a small boy(6?) I heard the religious education chair say: "We can't make them Unitarians but we can make dam sure they are nothing else." The effort was successful. I think I am happier for it.

Would others benefit from such early education? I think so. Others will certainly disagree.