Child Mind Fuck: Why indoctrination is bad

[BlackSwordsman]

So I was eating at a Vegan restaurant with my family. My children hate "hot sauce" "Chili" actually anything red or they think is chili but they love catsup (spelling on purpose)

So we had fries, and I had chili, and ketchup on my plate.

I dipped my fry in the ketchup and told tried giving it to my youngest, but my older son kept saying "no don't its chili, I saw him put it in the chili"

Anyhow my youngest would not eat it, but after we got him to eat it, he started crying and making a face as if it had been actual chili.

It got me thinking of how indoctrination works in the same way, by getting children to believe something is true and making them truly believe it. Even when it isn't true.

[Elskidor]

Completely agree. Get them when they know no better and corrupt them. It's an evil tactic. My wife and I use to argue because she wanted to baptize our daughter, and I wouldn't have it. We both agreed we would keep our daughter free from our beliefs and she would not be influenced by being forced into a church. She saw being baptized as a normal tradition that she had to do when she was a kid, and I saw it as forcing religion on our newborn. I won.

[BlackSwordsman]

Completely agree. Get them when they know no better and corrupt them. It's an evil tactic. My wife and I use to argue because she wanted to baptize our daughter, and I wouldn't have it. We both agreed we would keep our daughter free from our beliefs and she would not be influenced by being forced into a church. She saw being baptized as a normal tradition that she had to do when she was a kid, and I saw it as forcing religion on our newborn. I won.

I remember you referencing that about your daughter before that is good to hear you kept her from it, my kids because of influences in the family call themselves Christian.

We all know Family Politics and how it can be a warzone.

Anyway I tell my children you can't be a Christian and you can't be Buddhist like your mother and I either, you are too young for religion and too young to understand what it means.

But my mother in law keeps giving the children "Jesus" books, movies, cartoons, religious things, so to fight back I got the children a book of World Religions that shows them that the world believes different things.