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Well, sure. Repeating other posts - but one of the most common examples is when an agent's beliefs are displayed to other agents. Imagine that all your associates think that there is a Christian god. This group includes all your prospective friends and mates. Do you tell them you are an agnostic/atheist - and that their views are not supported by the evidence? No, of course not! However, you had better not lie to them either - since most humans lie so poorly. The best thing to do is probably to believe their nonsense yourself.
You realize, of course, that under this policy everyone stays Christian forever.
Indeed - religion is persistent. Of course in the real world you would find that isolated communities would arise, where "belief mutations" could arise without them being severely punished by the crowd.