2007-07-29 16:38:04 · 17 answers · asked by airforce_justin 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. I was raised a certain religion, but upon becoming an adult, I researched that religion and found that it was seriously in disagreement with the holy book it claims to represent, and wrote a letter of resignation from it.
2007-07-29 16:42:20 · answer #1 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am an atheist who grew up in a Christian family, and I was a Christian for a great time in my life. I do believe that "brain-washing" is an over simplistic term for the ideologism that my parents and fellow-church goers used inorder to have me submit to the religion of my parents. The way in which family pressures one into adhering to the same faith that has been passed on from generations upon generations before you is a subtle and hard to describe phenomenon.
2007-07-29 23:46:47 · answer #2 · answered by pecier 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily. I've only been the same religion as my mom for nine months. And I'm turning 27 in just a couple months. So obviously, if I had been brainwashed, I would have been the same religion as my mom my entire life.
2007-07-29 23:50:08 · answer #3 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually no. My parents were of the catholic denomination and I left that denomination after studying the scriptures and came to an understanding that their doctrines were not biblical.
I am now a Christian and a Christian only....seperate and apart from the denominational world.
I adhere to the doctrines of the God inspired scriptures (the Bible) only.
Christ said that HE would build HIS church (singular) Matt. 16:18...
He did NOT say that He would build a bunch of different denominations with conflicting doctrines and traditions that are contrary to the very oracles of God.
Where the word churches (plural) is used in scripture it is NEVER used to designate different denominations, but rather, CHRIST's church in different locations/communities. Example: Corinth, Ephesus, Jerusalem, etc.
CHRIST is the head of THE body (Col. 1:18)...
THE body is THE church...Eph. 1:23..
CHRIST is the SAVIOR of THE body (Eph. 5:23)..
There is only ONE body (Eph. 4:4)..
CHRIST loved THE church and gave HIMSELF (shed his blood) for IT (singular)...Eph. 5:25
Since THE church is Christ's body (Eph. 1:23) & Christ is the Savior of THE body (Eph. 5:23)...HOW can anyone be saved OUTSIDE of THE church?...the answer is: they CAN'T.
I am a member of the church of CHRIST.
When church of CHRIST is on the sign outside the building it is NOT a name of a denomination....it show WHO are meeting in the building and WHOM they follow.
All church of CHRISTcongregations were autonomous, self ruled according by scriptures, having elders as overseers, their constitution the scriptures, their evidences of persuasion the scriptures, their practices the scriptures.
Therefore the church of CHRIST does not fit the defination of denomination.
I said all this to say....no I was not BRAIN washed into a religion and no they did not BRAIN wash me into a religion...but I have been HEART washed by the oracles of God and the blood of the precious blood of Christ.
Have a wonderful day. :o)
2007-07-29 23:52:07 · answer #4 · answered by Catherine J. C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you might want to use a dictionary and thesaurus and do some studying on the word brain washed and see what all it entails before you go around using words above your vocab level
Brainwash :break down, convince, drill, ground, imbue, implant, inculcate, influence, initiate, instill, instruct, plant, program, work over
This is not my idea of raising children in love !!
2007-07-29 23:41:59 · answer #5 · answered by I Love Jesus 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My father was a member of the Baptist church, my mother never belonged to any church. Her parents didn't belong to any church. I have never belonged to any church and I'm an atheist. I'm just like my maternal grandparents and my mother.
I attended a Catholic school for a time when I was in grade school, but I was expelled when the sisters realized I was already an atheist.
2007-07-29 23:43:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even if ther was no religion, you'd still be living in brain wash!
2007-07-29 23:46:26 · answer #7 · answered by Arthur G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wasn't raised in a religious family. My parents became Christians years AFTER I did.
2007-07-29 23:49:20 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. My parents didn't take me to church when I was a kid. But they did explain God and Jesus.
When I got older they showed me the door; but I'm the own who opened it.
I'm in my crazy rebellious teen years; I have questioned everything, including religion. They still don't force me to go to church, I choose to.
2007-07-29 23:44:19 · answer #9 · answered by pamiekins 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, religion is brainwashing no matter how you look at it. It's forcibly cramming dogma down childrens' throats, and if they ask questions about it they remind them they'll go to hell if they continue. I can't think of a more appropriate use for the term brainwashing.
2007-07-29 23:43:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋