RE: My mother annoys me
February 23, 2012 at 11:50 pm
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2012 at 12:03 am by Xavier.)
(February 22, 2012 at 1:34 pm)Strongbad Wrote: I'd say that there is a very good reason that his wife believes what she does, just like Napolean's mom (and my wife too, btw), and it has nothing to do with the validity of her beliefs. She, like every other Christian that I've ever met or corresponded with (including every Christian on this forum, especially the ones that claim to be "former atheists") was indoctrinated as a child. It is almost impossible for her to not carry on believing what she was taught before she reached the age of reason. People in authority when she was a child instructed her that the Christian god is real, the Bible is God's word, hell is a real place to be feared, Satan is real, sin is real, etc, etc. It is a statistical fact that the vast majority of people that were indoctrinated as children have an extremely difficult time escaping the clutches of their indoctrination, and it is almost pointless to try to deprogram them.
I was indoctrinated as a child with religious belief, and was forced to go to church all the time by my parents, and went to a very religous school where we were taught Christian beliefs and mythology as being facts as much as science and recorded history is fact.
I still rejected it a very early age because it seemed completely irrational and in no way plausible.
I just don't understand how people can grow up and still believe in this stuff.
I think its a million times harder to believe Christian god is real, the Bible is God's word, hell is a real place to be feared, Satan is real, sin is real, etc, etc. than it is to be an atheist.
I can't help it but I get very angry with Christians when discussing religion because it seems to me they're just deliberately trying to be stupid and wilfully ignorant and I have no respect for that.