that it is giving extra weight to what your parents believe the way the premise is constructed and I am inferring that that extra weight would not be given to what your parents believe if you don't believe in God.
If that extra weight was given to the parents in the second case of not believing in God then there would not be such a fallacy. So I am reading between the lines and thus perhaps misreading .... but I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm not misreading.
My belief is that you believe in something because you believe it after thinking it through on your own, not because of someone telling you to believe it. I'm not really sure I would say that you really believed something unless you had thought it through on your own.
edit -- to be a bit more accurate maybe I should say that there is a fallacy in how the word believe is being used in the thesis.
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