Religious upbringing of children... We're talking Christian, Muslim, Judaism, etc, etc...
When parents have a certain religious view that they believe is truth, want their children to believe is truth, and raise their children in that atmosphere of absolutes with no regard to the level of understanding the child possesses.... is it brainwashing?
STOP. This is a philosophical argument, not a religious one... so chill out.
When a child is confronted with "facts" over and over again the entire time they are growing up, they will, more often than not, accept these "facts" as truth.
At no point was the child asked to think critically on what was being said since at young ages, we all utterly lack the ability to do so.
So, now, we're confronted with young adults that believe something because they were told it, grew up with it, and just accepted it. They may not understand why they believe it or how they came to believe it, but they believe it all the same.
The Nazis used this to extremes with the Hitler youth. Religion has used it since the dawn of time.
Consider the attached picture...
A banana is placed at the top of a ladder. Whenever a monkey attempted to retrieve the banana, they were sprayed with water. Eventually, none of the monkeys would attempt to retrieve the banana.
Then, new monkeys began to replace old monkeys one-by-one. When the new monkeys would go to retrieve the banana, the old monkeys would beat him back from the ladder to prevent him from getting sprayed.
New monkeys continued to replace the old monkeys until there were only new monkeys in the group. However, none of them would go to retrieve the banana.
None of them knew why they shouldn't get the banana, but they knew that they couldn't.
Please share your thoughts.
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