Here's a question for you:
How do you know that you yourself havnt been indoctrinated into disbelief in God?
2007-03-30 06:51:58 · 19 answers · asked by Maurice H 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Most atheists were not born into atheist homes and did not grow up in atheist environments....It's not impossible, the same way it is not impossible for a Christian to find faith through critical thinking, it's just the trend is rare.
2007-03-30 06:55:05 · answer #1 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I was born without belief in deities. Atheism is the default. If indoctrination has taken place, it takes atheism, which is the opposite of indoctrination, to undo all the brainwashing. When a cult member is "deprogrammed", the end result is the lack of belief in whatever nonsensical belief system the cult has instilled. This does not require indoctrination, it requires that the person who has been indoctrinated use his/her own rational thought processes and stop denying the obvious.
2007-03-30 07:01:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Noam Chomsky has been quoted saying, "For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments."
2007-03-30 06:57:33 · answer #3 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First i was a christian then I asked questions. Then I was agnostic, but soon came to the conclusion that I don't know if a god is provable or not, so I shouldn't presume it to be unprovable or provable. So with a lack of evidence to know if it is even provable, I should fall back to what the thought would be had I not thought of it. So I am an Atheist.
These are all choices I made on my own, not choices placed on me.
2007-03-30 07:05:11 · answer #4 · answered by Magus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, those of us who don't believe in a God like that of Abraham, have received no indoctrination. No one told me there wasn't a God, I questioned and studied and communed with myself and the universe and chose for myself. You obviously don't truly understand the depths of your own indoctrination.
2007-03-30 06:56:10 · answer #5 · answered by Momofthreeboys 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The term "indoctrinate" implies that there was an individual or an organization with an agenda at work.
The last thing atheists are is organized. We just don't believe in any gods.
2007-03-30 06:56:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think you are stereotyping people. I am an Athiest and have never said Indoctrinated about anyone or any group...
2007-03-30 06:55:22 · answer #7 · answered by lokiosez 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No evidence then why should anybody believe? It's that simple, takes no indoctrination, just a thinking brain.
2007-03-30 07:19:59 · answer #8 · answered by CD 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was raised a Christian, and I was a born-again, saved, convinced and convicted Christian.
I came to the atheistic conclusion based on my own thoughts and choices well past the age of reason.
2007-03-30 06:55:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kind'a have been, but it was more a *lack* of contrary indocri-nation - that is, it pretty well never came up. And am proud my parents did so. But they also took us the church to educate us in other ways - it was unbelievable then, too. Problem?
2007-03-30 06:56:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋