RE: The questionable morality of Christianity (and Islam, for that matter)
July 20, 2015 at 4:07 pm
(July 20, 2015 at 3:29 pm)Dystopia Wrote: A question - When is it not brainwashing and indoctrination?
Answer - When you agree with the doctrine...
Am I lying?
We are all morally guilty - Those who don't believe are still influenced by the predominant religion, and we all believe more or less what our society teaches us, or our parents. I don't think believing what your parents taught you is much better than believing what god told you to do, even though the latter probably doesn't exist - You're still following orders.
You seem confused on the meaning of the term "indoctrination":
Quote:indoctrination
1 The process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ctCode=all
The key word in the definition of "indoctrination" is "uncritically." It is not a question of what is taught, but how it is taught, that distinguishes between indoctrination and other teaching.
Pretty much the only way you are going to get a child to maintain a belief in god is through indoctrination. Children naturally have questions about things, and if that natural tendency is allowed free reign, then the child is going to eventually realize that the god story does not make sense. Unless, of course, the child is abnormally stupid.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
