Faith-healing choice hurt child

[Zenith]

I did not say that they are not stupid, I know they are. I said that they are victims of indoctrination.

I think at some point, one becomes old enough to consider the indoctrination they have received from childhood and overcome it

The problem with the indoctrination is not that "you were taught like this by your parents when you were little" but that you still live in that church, where there are not the parents those who check on you, but everyone else you know. I'll try to explain, perhaps you will get an idea about what I'm talking about: it is like an inner circle, where people within don't communicate with the outside world (well, they have jobs and go to school, but it's strictly professional, they do not involve in activities with the outsiders), and they get involved in activities only with the other members of the church, and constantly receive and are imposed (through manipulation, etc.) the same doctrine. So it's a big difference between having been taught something when you were child, and living permanently in the same world for 40+ years, where all you know is what they tell you, where all you have is what they offer to you, where you are made strictly dependent on them, and any initiative to do something different or to believe something different is regarded as a blasphemy by them (so you fear attempting anything).

About what I said in the previous post, I meant that people usually consider themselves superior to other people and say "ha ha ha, look what stupid they are, and how smart we are!", as if, for the smart ones, it's all their own merit for how they are, and as if the indoctrinated had the exactly same chances to develop.

I think they're stupid stupid people who deserve to fry!

And I thought I was sadistic. Anyway, I don't agree with burning them on the stake.
I believe that how they are (the guys mentioned in the news) is... incurable. So, if you can't help them... well not to be sadistic, let's say the modern version: prison for life.

Anyway, I'm sure they regard themselves as martyrs or something for suffering 'injustice', for suffering for keeping the laws of God or something, so by this method - punishing them - there is little probability for them to change. But let's be optimistic!