What is indoctrination in religion?

Indoctrination means teaching someone to accept a set of beliefs without questioning them. Indoctrination often refers to religious ideas, when you’re talking about a religious environment that doesn’t let you question or criticize those beliefs.

How can one be educated through indoctrination?

Education involves the seeking of facts, and learning about what is the truth, and what is not. Indoctrination is aimed at influencing people to believe in facts, without being able to back up these newfound facts with anything but opinion. You can be indoctrinated into a political party, a cult, or a belief system.

What is the process of indoctrination?

Indoctrination is the process of inculcating a person with ideas, attitudes, cognitive strategies or professional methodologies (see doctrine).

How do you get rid of religious indoctrination?

Here is how it is achieved: First, one must become acquainted with and become used to the correct terminology pertaining to religious indoctrination. Even though the religious are quick to point out that others have been brainwashed (such as communists, other religious adherents and even Atheists), it is they who have succumbed to this process.

What influences indoctrination in a child in a fundamentalist Christian environment?

From this graphic, it should be clear that a child in a fundamentalist Christian environment faces a powerful array of factors influencing indoctrination. Many of these techniques are quite deliberate, such as keeping children at home for their schooling to control what they learn and don’t learn.

What do you do when you want to stop being religious?

Go to a counselor. Talk therapy helps a lot, and saves you a lot of angst. Take the religious blogs off your RSS reader, or move them down to the bottom. Find a new ‘tribe’, get together with a hobby group of some kind in your town.

What is the ‘indoctrination argument’?

The ‘indoctrination’ argument. The most persistent surviving irrational dogma of the New Atheist movement, and absolute proof that atheists are as capable of the same weaknesses of sense and reason that believers are. People tend, generally, to retain the views of their parents.