Religion - genuine belief or educated to believe

I think that's restating the whole question in the OP. Would one believe the Bible contains the most important values if one hadn't been taught that from the beginning? If some person who had never been influenced by Christianity, Judaism or Islam picked up the Bible and read through it, would they think it was a book of the most important values? Do you have to have the possibility implanted in your mind in order for it to flourish, or can it grow if left to its own devices?

Well, there are enough people in the world that there would have to be a couple who could come upon the Bible completely cold and think it the best book of morals ever written, but I would have to guess they are in the slimmest of minorities. Most people who believe the Bible, I would guess, are probably from countries where the Bible is already be lieved by many, forcably made to believe in it through indoctrination at a later time in life, or were in proximity to a small group of people who believed while living in a country that may not have that belief as a majority (China, Muslim countries, etc).This may the argument from incredulity fallacy on my part, but I find it hard to believe there are many out there who are completely unaware of the Bible and who would think the morals portrayed therein were the be all and end all of morality when exposed to them in a neutral way.