Have you ever heard someone say, *“If grew up in the United States, then that’s what explains my Christianity”*? Or, *“If I grew up in Saudi Arabia, guess what? I wouldn’t be a Christian; I’d be a Muslim.”* If someone wants to use this as an objection to Christianity or religious belief, it actually commits a genetic fallacy. **A genetic fallacy faults an idea based on its origin (where it comes from) and then dismisses it irrationally.** Think about this claim: “If you would have grown up here, you would have been something else.” That’s not a *rational* claim, that’s a claim of *sociology*. It’s an assessment of society’s influence on your beliefs. **Sociology can tell us about the influences on our beliefs, but it can’t tell us whether those beliefs are true or false.** So, this is not a strong objection to Christianity.