Parasitic Religion

I see a good deal of truth in the argument (per Dawkins) that religion is a kind of parasite, a set of memes that replicate themselves from generation to generation by cleverly commandeering certain critical mental faculties to ensure their reproduction. (And even recognizing this, I find myself unable to take any kind of measured stand to prevent my own exploitation as a receptive host.) As hard as it is to internally revise or reject religious beliefs learned in childhood, it is much harder yet to resist conveying these beliefs to one's children. Religious beliefs do seem to force one inexorably to communicate them to the next generation. They hijack one's rationality by playing to emotions of guilt and fear. Religious people who don't really believe any of the religious fairytales will still transmit religion to their children, either directly or through the schools in which they enroll them. This process is rarely ever disrupted by a host declaring "I will not transmit!" Rather, disruption occurs when a host transmits ineffectively, for example, when a parent sends their child to an after-school religious program. While such a measure may satisfy the parent's compulsion to transmit religion, it is not adequate to implant the religious memes into the new host. Thus we find that completely secular people are generally not raised on secularism, but are more often raised on "religion-lite". For these individuals, someone indeed did attempt to infect them with the relevant memes, but the effort was not adequate for the memes to take root and the religious parasite was extinguished. Am I being too negative?