To answer our question, Babak, and trying to keep this on-topic for you (!) Religion IS a heritage from parents.
Most children are baptised into the faith of their parents at a very early age. This is frankly ludicrous. You wouldn't register your baby as a Republican or Democrat, Conservative, Labour or Liberal, at birth, thus enforcing a specific set of Governmental or political views upon them! Everyone chooses their politics when they can actively discuss, comprehend and decide for themselves. And even then, you have to be of a mature age to cast your vote and to make a difference! Some people don't ascribe to politics, parties or voting....
Why then, is it deemed accepable to impose a Religion upon a person, and expect them to adhere throughout their lives, simply on the say-so of elders? It's not logical. And the amount of atheists, agnostics, and people converting to other faiths, philosophies or disciplines, bears this out. I am a case in point. So are the majority of Western Buddhists. I do not, nor ever would claim to speak for them, but I use Buddhism as an ilustrative point, because that's what I practise.
Does this young man also find himself with different parents to the ones he was born to?
Would changing his religion cause 'political' upheaval? That is to say, would it be frowned upon by the leaders of the county? Could he 'convert' easily, or is it fraught with difficulties?
Wow, what a difficult place to find yourself in - !
