Christianity almost impossible without indoctrination

[Tonus]

One of the most common fears I see Christians like fraudo express towards atheism is that, if given the chance, we'll treat them ad horribly as they have treated everybody else for 2,000 years (and still do today, whenever they can get away with it). This fear is fueled by the same conceit that produces arguments like "atheism is a religion" and "atheists just hate God": the amazing conceit that psychopathic and misanthropic Christian beliefs and thinking are default settings for humanity.

They might actually be the default settings, based on what we see in the animal kingdom, and based on what we see throughout human history. Humans have a propensity towards selfish and violent behavior that we have been slowly working to overcome. I think it's a strong bit of evidence against religion that instead of blunting that urge, it simply gave it a different outlet that allowed people to commit even more savagery against one another by providing them with the most convenient excuse ever: a powerful deity who was above petty human morals had commanded them to act, on pain of death and/or suffering if they did not.