Rhythm Wrote:In fairness people may not be born theists, but their becoming theists probably doesn't have anything to do with "brainwashing". Indoctrination...sure, but indoctrination relies on having hooks in the person ..it's an issue of exploiting them. You're not really washing anything, just building associations between existing impetus and a target exhibition of behavior or belief.
This is how you can be made to believe, made to kill...and ofc, made to kill for your belief.
To pick a nit, I think theism is transmissible from parents even if they don't engage in indoctrination. Small children are sponges for the ideas of adults even when the adults are not making an effort to make sure their kids have particular beliefs. Parents who are 'casual theists' will probably have children who pick up similar attitudes by environmental osmosis, even if they never have 'the God talk'.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.