@Viviankimmy: That's also just not indoctrination. Indoctrination would be saying that you need to believe in god or else and don't you dare fucking question it for even a minute. This does quickly get on a bit of a slippery slope in that one can make the argument that religions do this innately with the concepts of reward and punishment in the afterlife and all that business, but I think people should in fact be free to believe whatever they want to believe.
I would simply prefer they not be forced to do so at a young age when they don't even fully understand the concept of death or the context under which these religions were created. Or even just the nature of the religious organizations themselves, being made up of innately flawed human beings that are absolutely not incapable of lying and in fact many have distorted facts of their own religion and altered meanings of things over time to suit their own ends. That is mental abuse, in my opinion. If you want to go into it educated and knowledgeable of the subject, be my guest. And hell, if you want to go into it blind as well there's really nothing I can do to stop you.
Also, yeah, abuse is a wide variety of things. It is not purely physical. Verbal and emotional/mental/psychological abuse are all real things as well.
