(December 26, 2011 at 5:28 pm)amkerman Wrote: I see what you're saying darkest. The point I was trying to make was that people who convert choose to do so, they are not indoctrinated. They agree that one religion conforms more to their own beliefs than another, and they make the personal choice to convert. They are not brainwashed. Not everyone who belongs to a particular religion is there because they have been taught it's the only way. They believe before they convert, not afterwards.
Most youths are indoctrinated in the exact same way the children in the OP's video were indoctrinated to buy things.
They're exposed at an early age and supposed "truths" are repeated ad nausium while they're unable to tell that they're being manipulated. This is done though a parent's religious practices, religious television, the bible, church, and sunday school.
It alll amounts to the same thing.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
