Yes, this is a very human tendency. I'm susceptible to it as an atheist. (I would love to think that I have a much-more open mind, but just get me started about issues I feel passionately about: political, feminist, ecological, etc.) and I'm just as likely to dismiss someone offering a different opinion as "stupid" instead of listening to their points. So I'm still working on it.
This tendency is why we have a lot of religious children (at least here in the US) being home-schooled. Their parents want to indoctrinate their children into their religion, while shielding them from all other points of view.
I remember, even in the 70's, hearing preachers tell their congregations to not let their children go to college. They were likely to "get all sorts of ideas in their heads and they'll start thinking they're smarter than god". I pity the kids who didn't get to go LEARN somethin'.
This tendency is why we have a lot of religious children (at least here in the US) being home-schooled. Their parents want to indoctrinate their children into their religion, while shielding them from all other points of view.
I remember, even in the 70's, hearing preachers tell their congregations to not let their children go to college. They were likely to "get all sorts of ideas in their heads and they'll start thinking they're smarter than god". I pity the kids who didn't get to go LEARN somethin'.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
