[quote]katzenjammer wrote:
orion wrote:
katzenjammer wrote:
Yes, you’re right. The definition is entirely apt: secularists are often brainwashed. It’s a pity, really.
It is more like brain building. Religious indoctrination usually starts at an age where children are genetically programmed to believe everything their parents tell them. Linked with feelings of love and fear towards their parents religious ideas become part of the brain, and not in those regions you can easily change later on by learning new things.
Children are brainwashed in all sorts of ways, nowadays in secular “religions.” Ever talk to a child about global warming and the environment? It’s pretty revealing.
Of course, brainwashing is not the same thing as actually teaching a child, is it?
One can teach a child about one’s religion as much as one can actually teach a child about the environment. Or, of course, you can brainwash them about either, or both.
By far and away, most of the people I know who are extremely intellectual, open minded, loving, tolerant, free, cultivated, and historically-aware, most of these people are invariably religious.
Conversely, most of the people I know who exemplify the opposite characteristics, often turn out to be secularists and - it just so happens - are often virulently anti-religious as well.
All-too-often, secularists are (perhaps unwittingly) captured by all sorts of ideologies & facile PC posturing that, for all intents & purposes, turn out to be precisely analogous to the pernicious attributes they cast upon religions.
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Anecdotal evidence means…absolutely nothing.
For the record,I have found exactly the opposite.