(May 9, 2015 at 10:08 pm)robvalue Wrote: That is something I often wonder. If I had been indoctrinated, would I have eventually seen through it? My instinct is to say "of course" but I know that's really naive. I reckon it would depend on the severity of the indoctrination and how it was enforced. I would hope that eventually I would be able to kick out from the religious pin, but I'm all too aware how the mind can be screwed with. It would go against my inquisitive, logical and moral nature on every level, so I fear I'd go insane trying to reconcile it. But maybe I'd just have developed differently and wouldn't be that way as much.
There is just no telling whether you would have escaped from religious indoctrination or not. There are far too many variables. We can expect that if the indoctrination were done poorly, you probably would have escaped from the nonsense. But if it were done masterfully, then it is impossible to know.
But this is the part you should remember. For your life, it does not matter whether you would or would not have escaped from the indoctrination, because you were not so indoctrinated. It is an issue that is irrelevant to your life.
I recommend that you focus your attention on actual problems in your life, and not worry about things that are not problems in your life. Surely, you have no need of manufacturing extra problems to worry about?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
