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As a parent of 3 I very strongly disagree with this.
Kids are superstitious as fuck. Man's natural state is believing in the supernatural because of how our brains work to piece together information.
The supernatural, yes. Someone else's rigidly defined and extremely authoritarian guilt-based explanation of the supernatural though? Nothing natural about that.
It's NOT natural for a child, being naturally curious and expressive, to be told "this is the only truth and if you don't agree then that makes you a bad person who's going to suffer for eternity"
You're right that it is human psychology but Supernatural / God is an easy explanation for things we don't understand because it doesn't actually explain why things happen, it is a scapegoat that avoids answering the question. In the absence of information, it is more comfortable to feel like we have an understanding of something rather than admit we don't know why it happens , so we are inclined to believe the leading theory even if it doesn't have supporting evidence.
As we grow and learn about the knowledge modern humans have gathered, we understand why things actually happen. For example, humans used to think a sun god pulled the sun across the sky, then we learned about the solar system. As the breadth of scientific knowledge grows, the areas for supernatural/religious claims shrink.