Why people are religious

[robvalue]

Indoctrination, in my understanding, is teaching [religious dogma] uncritically as fact. Of course, it could be mild, it could be relentless.

If you do that to a child, especially before they reach the age of reason, there's a good chance you can program them.

It is probably getting harder to do now, with environments being less insular and the internet on hand to instantly dispel bullshit. But it's still a lot to expect from a young child to research what their parents tell them.

I can relate to the feeling, because I got programmed as a child too. Just not anything religious in nature. The programming still haunts me today, even as anally logical as I like to think I am.