The Not-so-elephant In The Room

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Speaking of indoctrination, I find it revolting when a parent refers to their young child (or even baby) as "a Muslim" or "a catholic" or whatever. They clearly won't even be able to understand the concepts involved, so they literally can't believe it. Especially if they've just been born and they don't know anything at all yet.

The problem with teaching religion to a child (or anyone) is that it can't be done alongside teaching them how to think properly or distinguish reality from fiction. So I guess this is why parents want to get it all in there before the child is capable of telling the difference, and then start teaching them how to think afterwards. I wonder if the parents worry that if they let their child get too old and get some life experience and thinking skills first, then they will laugh at the mention of the religion.