I feel like the answer is "his mother was a Christian and his father was a pagan"
The answer to this question is the third statement which is "innate ideas exist because we are all born with them". Although there are some philosophers who disagree with this concept. Innate ideas are ideas that are inborn. We have already this idea even we don't have experience.
well it says here in the exerpt that they bursted out in to laughter showing they thought that was a joke.
