Reply #77: Improper use of the term [View All]

[Az]

Brainwash implies that you are overwriting existing positions. In fact what all parents do is indoctrinate their children in their cultural and religious institutions. This is simply the socialization process. As Richard Dawkins suggests it is no coinicidence that of all the beliefs in the world children most often wind up following the same path as their parents.

The thing of this is that we can see that religion does not spread by power of truth. Rather it is the efficacy of its methodology of propogation that determines its spread. This can be quite independent of the truth. Like an evolutionary game of telephone, the version of the story that spreads the best is the one that dominates over time.