I also wish to add that I do believe that we need to 'earn' or find our own ideas for ourselves, but I am not sure that everyone does. — Jack Cummins
Teaching people ideas is probably not very problematic. It's when you teach people to be afraid of questioning, doubting, entertaining alternatives... Whether it's coercive control, wrangling slaves, ostracizing someone for having different political views or being gay or reading books, violent apostasy or good ol' Stockholm syndrome, it's always all downside. Occasionally atheists convert after consideration. It's odd, it's rare, but it's fair because they're adults using their experience, feelings and reason. But mostly theists are raised in their religion: it's chosen for them, and contains astonishing threats, even if conveyed with love. — Kenosha Kid
saying atheists convert after consideration — Athena
Miseducation. Religion-sanctioned scapegoating. State-sanctioned economic exploitation. "Divide & control" classism (oligarchic hierarchies). You know: the (modern?) vaneer of civilization – tribalism rationalized. Denials of reality that also, more expediently, self-servingly, "define reality" in the short / medium term at the expense of the long(est) term.How could we have so little empathy for other human beings? — Athena
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