(May 9, 2015 at 10:08 pm)robvalue Wrote: That is something I often wonder. If I had been indoctrinated, would I have eventually seen through it? My instinct is to say "of course" but I know that's really naive. I reckon it would depend on the severity of the indoctrination and how it was enforced. I would hope that eventually I would be able to kick out from the religious pin, but I'm all too aware how the mind can be screwed with. It would go against my inquisitive, logical and moral nature on every level, so I fear I'd go insane trying to reconcile it. But maybe I'd just have developed differently and wouldn't be that way as much.
Eventually you would but it is a process when you are indoctrinated young. When you are indoctrinated young, the existence of god is not even a question, its a rock solid foundation for everything, so your reasoning and logic are tainted from the start. It took me years to shake god and it took a few more years to shake a bunch of paranormal woo stuff. The only people who break free from this indoctrination are those who actually care about the truth of what they believe.
