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that in many of these households, the "elders" (grandparents and great-grandparents, as you have a number of multi-generational living arrangements) become very (and sometimes overly) "religious", and some of that will penetrate. But other times it is rejected and even rebelled against.

But those elders still become a "constant reminder" of what is supposed to be "moral" and "immoral" and will put that guilt trip on their younger family members, and if one hears the same "sayings" continually, one eventually starts repeating them as they grow older (and finally understand the point).

So I think since there is a strong "human nature" tendency towards being "immoral", entities like "the church" (whichever one) attempted to reign that in (although often hypocritically engaging in the very practices that are ranted against). But the "overlay" is still there in the psyche.