(April 6, 2016 at 2:54 pm)robvalue Wrote:(April 6, 2016 at 1:14 pm)Goosebump Wrote: I'm no scholar, but isn't that old testament? So some sects can claim they are new testament believers and that other stuff is some old shit.
Other then that you have the "it's god's plan", or god's the only one that can judge, or god's the only one that can take and give life etc... Some parts justify other parts if you ignore the parts that don't.
Also most folks are taught religion from childhood, they are surrounded in a world where over 80% of everybody believes in some version; and we now know we don't really have full developed brains till our 20s. With those pathways built up over the years before the brain can critically analysis them it's no wonder some folks can't be reasoned with.
This is what pisses me off. We get bombarded with how self evident it is that Christianty (or whatever) is true, yet few parents dare let their kid get to even the age of 7 before indoctrinating them. Let alone older.
What are they scared of? That God is going to mark them down on those childhoods years? Or that if they don't program them early their kid won't believe all the mythology? No one needs to be indoctrinated to believe in mathematics or gravity. Or anything that has reason behind it.
I don't think they think any of those things. I don't think they think about it at all. After all it's what was done to them, they are already under the influence. Not teaching it to their kids doesn't even enter the thought process; it's just what is done. There own indoctrination makes it quite clear they have to indoctrinate their children. Else the kid will go to hell or some such nonsense right?
I don't see any malevolence. Just the indoctrinated doing what they were indoctrinated to do.
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