Is it better to be an Atheist or Theist?

@Harriet03
[quote][b]Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.[/b]

- J.J. Rousseau[/quote]

i think thats a strong word. i was raised around it and im an atheist and i dont harbor bad feelings about it. @Harriet03

@Harriet03 Many are strong enough to resist the indoctrination.

@Spoiledbrat Which word would you use?

@zonavar68 As a child?

Wow, I know people that have a positive worldvieuw, but you are pretty extreme.

@Kwek00 many die hard religious people try to indoctrinate their children very early on so it feels 'natural' to be blindly faith based.

@zonavar68 This isn't only a religious thing. Parenting / raising children, always has an elemen of indoctrination. The household is not a democracy, and children aren't in a position to argue effectively against their parents. And what is good and what is evil, is largely spooned in by parents, education and the entire enviorement people grow up in. Escaping this, or being resistant too it... seems impossible. Because actively pushing back against ideas, means that you know and understand the antithesis of the idea you need to push back too.

There is scene in "the eye 3" (not a great movie, you don't have to look it up) where 2 scientists fall in love and she gets pregnant. And she announces it to her lover by saying something: "I'm pregnant, are you ready to indoctrinate our child with me.". Which always stuck with me as being a good line. 😅

And children, because they still have to develop their identities in diffrent phases of their life, are extremely malleable during these moments where they get into identity crisissis. Like puberty, where a lot of young people try to gain independence, and find groups that they can associate and grow in. It's this group that can be influenced and even radicalised verry easily.