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Anonymous asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 1 day ago

Its obvious all religions were made up, why does indoctrination still exist?

Since all religions are made up in order to make people feel good and have some sort of purpose, why don't people wake up and realize its all indoctrination since childhood and not true proven facts. How can people be so gullible and still believe this?

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  • Anonymous
    1 day ago
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    Some people *do* wake up and see what horseshit it all is.  Me for example.  I was indoctrinated from birth into Christianity, but I still saw it was all BS at age 13 or so.

  • 1 day ago

    The happiness of the just: and the unhappiness of the wicked.

    [1] But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them. [2] In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure was taken for misery: [3] And their going away from us, for utter destruction: but they are in peace. [4] And though in the sight of men they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality. [5] Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded: because God hath tried them, and found them worthy of himself.[6] As gold in the furnace he hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust he hath received them, and in time there shall be respect had to them. [7] The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds. [8] They shall judge nations, and rule over people, and their Lord shall reign for ever. [9] They that trust in him, shall understand the truth: and they that are faithful in love shall rest in him: for grace and peace is to his elect. [10] But the wicked shall be punished according to their own devices: who have neglected the just, and have revolted from the Lord.[11] For he that rejecteth wisdom, and discipline, is unhappy: and their hope is vain, and their labours without fruit, and their works unprofitable. [12] Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked. [13] Their offspring is cursed: for happy is the barren: and the undefiled, that hath not known bed in sin: she shall have fruit in the visitation of holy souls. [14] And the eunuch, that hath not wrought iniquity with his hands, nor thought wicked things against God: for the precious gift of faith shall be given to him, and a most acceptable lot in the temple of God. [15] For the fruit of good labours is glorious, and the root of wisdom never faileth.[16] But the children of adulterers shall not come to perfection, and the seed of the unlawful bed shall be rooted out. [17] And if they live long, they shall be nothing regarded, and their last old age shall be without honour. [18] And if they die quickly, they shall have no hope, nor speech of comfort in the day of trial. [19] For dreadful are the ends of a wicked race. 

  • Anonymous
    1 day ago

    It's obvious you don't know what you're talking about.

  • 1 day ago

    No, it is not, Einstein.  Suppose you come up with even a shred of evidence to support your assertion.  Then you will look better educated.  By all means, keep trying, but use a little logic next time instead of begging the question. 

    Every year millions experience God for themselves.  You should, too.  It's the logical thing to do.  Don't bother moving the goalposts.  It's more evidence than you have to shore up your fantasy that there is no God.

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  • Misty
    Lv 7
    1 day ago

    Fear works and all the religions of Abraham are fear based.

  • 1 day ago

    I'm a Christian. I openly say that I don't know if God is real. I'm only a believer, not a 'knower'. I choose to believe with open mind and clear conscience. In Christianity's term, a belief is measured by one's willingness to obey commandments, the greatest being "Love your neighbor" which is done by not neglecting those in need -- the most basic of all moral objectives. If I use religion as a tool of persecution of others, or if I idly rely on its 'magic' to make things happen instead of doing some work, that would be a problem. But if I take it as my personal relationship with God and my main source of motivation to to good work even without the expectation to get repaid in this lifetime, why would that be anybody's problem? I may not know if God is real but I know that physical death is real. Your question is arrogant and generalizingly insulting. Note that I don't claim to 'know' everything, I just choose to be a believer.

  • 1 day ago

    Fear..................

  • OTTO
    Lv 6
    1 day ago

    Threats of eternal punishment help to dissuade from disbelief.

  • 1 day ago

    Hearsay in one word ....Such idiots WANT to believe it..... So of course they being idiotic enough exactly that happens. Religion in a nutshell they being decidedly nuts to begin with

  • And it is obvious you are completely clueless

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