In a way that's interesting to me because I was raised in a cult, always refused to completely accept its control, then eventually left it. Jehovah's Witnesses don't automatically get baptized as babies, but are soon expected to "vow their entire life to God" in public via baptism, a type of contract between the Watchtower organization and you, somehow allowing them to force your family to shun you if they decide to expel you (and lie about it publicly, pretending that you have disassociated yourself).
But before you're pressed into that as a child or a teen, there are other steps. Hours of mandatory indoctrination per week, then whenever you accept to go preach, hours per week you are expected to regularly report about. I have memories of being ashamed to do it and of hoping that noone was home to answer the door.
I admit that at some point I was in the proficiency trip, doing it as a way to get noticed and praised. I had skills albeit misdirected. Then when pressed into getting baptized and long knowing that it couldn't be "the true faith", especially considering how judgemental it is of others and of themselves and how badly they treated the people they expel and their families, how they'll press to let children die in a hospital when needing blood, the way they constantly speak about outsiders as "worldy evil people with a worthless life", etc.
I was forced into it and happy to be free from it when leaving the house. I refused baptism. Years later, that this was the right decision was even more clear, when for a medical event I urgently needed blood and it saved my life. My parents are still allowed to speak to me, because I was never baptized and they have no right to expel me and impose shunning.
That's fundamentalist religion and religious identity for you. Fortunately, my latent skills and curiosity for learning about everything, defeated all their arguments and eventually rediscovered the sciences. I also am intimately familiar with all types of deceptive propaganda and can recognize and analyse it. But I have no regrets as religions and how they think and work (including all kinds of ideologies I researched about after leaving), are now part of my knowledge baggage. On the other hand, I'm sad when I still hear my parents utter the most idiotic statements. I cannot hate them, they are unfortunate victims of an exploitative cult.
