Childhood Indoctrination

Where in the world you're born has a MASSIVE influence on which religion you tend to follow.
The religious tend to speak in absolutes (like a Sith Lord haha!) but the world is little more than a distribution of probabilities.

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No.... I was an agnostic at 9

Personal anecdotes are not evidence.

Well then 2hat am I supposed to give you? Video proof my parents never abused me?!?

Bro never responded 🥀

It's barely been a day and you're already getting impatient?

Others don't exist for the sole purpose of getting you what you want when you want.

Doesn't your bible tell you to have patience and to be selfless? You might want to check it out once in a while.

Lol

I wasn't yelled at my mom to be Christian when I was a kid

No sane adult can believe the things Christians believe without heavy childhood indoctrination and emotional abuse.

Really

By that logic, no sane adult can believe that cells turned into fish, then into monkeys, then into humans because of random changes and energy without childhood indoctrination by public education and stupidity
Besides, if that were true, then why are there still Christians? Why haven't people eventually realized that all of this is just child indoctrination and the other crap you put on Christians to make them look bad?
Maybe...
Maybe because it isn't.

Nice attempt at oversimplification, but you'll need to try harder.

Jokes on you, I got to a private, LCMS-based school and have been in Christian schooling since I was in preschool. Sometimes studying Christianity enough will reveal the stupidity by itself.

I don't think you know how indoctrination works. It's difficult to see sense after going through that since it's been hammered into their brain at a young age. If you tell a child that they're going to hell if they don't listen to what you're saying and enforce that until they're an adult, they're going to have a lot of trouble getting that out of their head.

If someone told you the same thing for 18 years, over and over and over, it would be stuck in your head for a long time before you can reason it out.

How do you know that every christian ever was indoctrinated? You are not everyone else. Not everyone had the same life experience as you. As .999 said, personal anecdotes are not evidence. So stop pretending that every christian was indoctrinated. Please stop lying.
By the way, I don't care you went to a Christian school. It doesn't always prove your point, I hope you learn that.

No, they were. No sane adult would believe the things Christians believe.

My bringing up my Christian education was to refute your statement that I've never read the bible.

I didn't say that, and now you're looping back around to your previous argument, to which I can reply with that nobody can believe the things evolutionists believe without intense brainwashing, either.

Open a book other than your bible once in a while. I know they have some big, scary words, but try reading a science textbook and figuring things out for yourself.

Oh, I forgot. 2 Corinthians 5:7, "For we live by faith, not by sight." (we believe what we're told and without question)

For example, I wasn't told for 18 years that I'd go to hell if I didn't listen to my parents. Again, stop pretending everyone had the same life experience as you.

Of course not, you can't have 18 years of that when you're only in 8th grade.

Ad homenim

Sometimes that's what you have to resort to when people are as ignorant as christians.

Personal anecdotes are not evidence.

You don't even have evidence of childhood indoctrination causing people to believe in God

Childhood "indoctrination" within Christianity obviously exists to some degree (why are so many children of Christians Christians themselves???), what you should instead argue over is why "indoctrinating", or rather teaching your kids about your faith, is a morally good thing

And yet you never say anything when an Atheist's kid is an atheist too

Everyone is born as an atheist.

And kind of forced to be? Like you have to not consider so many atheists parents at this point

Atheists don't have weekly cult meetings that start the moment the followers are born.

They don't but I myself have witnessed parents force their children I have had witnesses speak about it to me, also these aren't cult meetings its just a church visitation which is still something that you aren't forced to do, only weird roman catholic parents who put the pope as some 'god' and some other rare weirdo parents force their children.

If I had a child still believing in things like Santa and the Easter bunny in their teenage years, I would try to bring some sense into their minds. I also wouldn't want them believing in the nonsense of a thousand-year-old book and basing their lives around it.

Again with the "Anything about my religion that I don't like is catholic".
People aren't forced into cults, they're forced to stay in them. Leaving the religion (especially at my age) is very difficult. I'm still forced to attend church 1-2 times per week, and Christian school 7 hours per day. Even when I can afford my own house and be independent, I'll still have people checking up to "pray for my faith". I also have to deal with narcissistic parents trying to force their religion into my life every chance they get, whether that's forced meetings with pastors or having life "coaches" talk about me and my faith.

It seems like a cult to me. You're told to commit your "soul" to the religion, you're told to "make Jesus 100% of your lives", you're told you're "different than the world", you have a mission of bringing others into the religion, being pushed to be friends/spouses only with people inside the religion, and you have a bunch of really sbizarre.

People don't like the word "cult", but your religion, when looked at from an outside perspective, is. It's very difficult for people to see something wrong with the religion they've made most of their lives based on.

I myself came from an atheistic household but now am a convert, I can for certain say it's not one way from CHRISTIan parents, also those who force religion are not real CHRISTIans

Oh look, a Johnny-come-lately who just joined and wants to come onto an atheist page and thinks he/she/it gets to define "real" Xtians.

I'm not coming here defining with zero reason, most of these parents are catholics who believe in heresies such as popes and so on, and THE BIBLE supports my point here, it tells us to not get in an argument with fools, or for example we see many of The Apostles tell many of cities that did not accept them "your bloods be on your own heads!"

It's always the catholics' fault with you guys.

This conversation isn't about proselytizing to other adults, it's about children being forced into a faith at a young age.

Your religion is based on "faith and not by sight," which is why you have weekly meetings to reinforce your beliefs. If people took a step back and looked at Christianity from an outside view, church attendance would go down significantly.

Studies show that roughly 94% of adult Christians were raised in Christian households. When you're just a few years old in Sunday school, and an adult tells you that you NEED to believe in something to save your soul from eternal suffering, obviously you're going to "ask Jesus into your heart"

Bro had the chance to live a normal life and decided life with psychotic cultists was right for them.