What would I like to change in the world?
I would like to stop the indoctrination of children into religion.
Untangling indoctrination
I was indoctrinated into religion as a child and it has been a lifelong struggle for me to undo that warping of the mind, heart and emotions. My indoctrination has impacted upon my feelings, thinking, sexuality, decisions and identity.
We teach children to believe in an imaginary ‘friend’. Yet even in my late 20s I feared that, if I left my priestly path, that I might never be happy if, after all, God had wanted me to be a priest.
Think for yourself
Education is meant to teach children how to think for themselves and to prepare them to become intelligent, reasonable, responsible, conscientious human adults.
Yet religion screwed up my intelligence, reason, responsibility and ability to act on the basis of my honest judgement.
A big cult is still a cult
A cult is no less dangerous to children if it is big and socially acceptable than if it is small and unfashionable. A cult is a cult; be it big or small. And yet defenceless, innocent children, even today, are placed in schools the primary purpose of which is to create new adherents to its potty, man-made religion.
Jesus stayed dead!
Let’s be straight. People don’t rise from the dead. Jesus didn’t, no matter how often the lie is repeated or taught to impressionable children or to adults who should know better.
Of course, having ‘risen’ from the dead, the story makers had the problem of did he die a second time? If he had, that rather defeats the pitch that he’d risen from the dead. But if he didn’t die again, then where is he? And does he look his 2000 or so years?
Beam me up Scotty!
So the arch-liars of the tale decided they had to come up with an excuse for his not being visible: he ‘ascended’ into heaven. Yup before helicopters and hot air balloons and Star Trek beaming up Scotty, the bold risen Jesus ‘ascended’ into the sky!
Please tell me that no rational individual actually believes this nonsense. It isn’t even good enough to constitute a hoax.
Hogwash, imbibed in childhood, sticks
And Jesus came and died to save us from our sins. Hello? If people hadn’t been taught such hogwash as children, they wouldn’t give the notion a secondary thought as adults. And yet grown men and women go on believing their particular delusion regardless of their intelligence or age.
Gods old and new
Nor do they seem to be bothered that, had they been born at a different time or place, they would, in all probability, have grown up believers in Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism or the Celtic, Norse or Greek gods.
Doesn’t truth matter?
If the beliefs were harmless, you might think: so what? But doesn’t the truth matter? They teach lies, as truth, to children; seeking to control their minds, emotions, judgements, decisions, sexualities, pockets, societies, lifestyles, relationships, laws, identities and freedoms.
Let us act today to stop the indoctrination of innocent children’s minds.