honestly I could write an essay of a post on this alone, but Eleanor and Elizabeth both failing to be the indoctrinated heirs to cults as wanted by their abusive parental figures is actually more realistic than you'd think.
Eleanor had nobody but her mother and any of her patients/followers to interact with, and Sofia tried to teach her to be the perfect Utopian. It didn't work though, because Eleanor was a bored little baby stabbing a tape recorder wanting to go out and make her own friends. She didn't understand what her mother was trying to impress on her about being selfless and understanding the needs of others, because a child is not going to understand adult needs (financial, social or otherwise) or even ANY needs beyond "be nice to people", so she focused on the things she actually found interest in and wanted to understand (other children and technology).
Elizabeth was in COMPLETE isolation with controlled resources and materials from an unknown age and had nobody to talk to but a giant robot bird. Being locked away from people with "nothing but books and spare time", she had nothing and no-one to reinforce any religious doctrine or rhetoric she may have found in mandated cult texts provided. Whoever controlled her reading material - probably the Luteces, knowing them they'd be indifferent - made sure she had the Book of Comstock on the same bookshelf as books about Buddhism, geography, Les Miserables, a whole mixture of fiction and non-fiction crossing a variety of topics. A child is not going to devotely read a book about some guy ranting over the somewhat below, you give her the freedom she's picking the book with pictures of the outside.
iirc, for English language we watched a Stephen Fry documentary about the subject, and there was a segment where this language professor who happened to be a Trekkie decided to start a harmless experiment by trying to teach his toddler Klingon as a second language. At first his son started picking it up quickly, but then just started to avoid using it and wanted to stick to English. The professor came to a conclusion (paraphrased) that his son had caught on that Klingon was "made-up" and got bored of it in practise, thus he stopped using it and insisted on just English altogether.
TL;DR, children can have almost supernatural bullshit detectors and given their respective isolation circumstances Eleanor and Elizabeth would absolutely resist cult indoctrination because nothing is more stubborn than a child bored out of her mind.
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