I relate this to how really anyone, myself included, grows in terms of how they socialize with members of another class or race. My parents tended to associate with middle-class white individuals who often never went to church just as we never went to church: by imitating that behavior, it's no wonder why I associated with people similar to me instead of those who fall into another group group(s). Not going to church and not believing in God was also something about my social self that I learned from my own