Are people sheeple?

Question

Do you belong to the same religion as your parents?
Do you belong to the same political party, if not the same political party as your parents, the most popular one of your region?

Answer 1

No, I did the research, religion is pure speculation.

No, I did the research, political parties advance the ideas of the wealthiest of their members, and no one else's.

No, group-think is often NON-thinking. I prefer to think for myself. Truth isn't told, it's discovered.

Answer 2

Most people are sheeple.
I do not belong to my parents' religion or anyone else's.
I do not belong to my parent's political party.
I do belong to the party that most people in my very small local region do, that's part of why I moved here but the greater region around us is not like-minded.

Answer 3

same religion as parents? NO. They are christians, I am atheist
Same political party? NO. They are conservative, I am liberal
Most popular political party in my region? Yes. But i was a liberal/democrat when i was in a none liberal/democrat state.

I like to be different, to stand out and i like to do stuff that i believe in despite the herd mentality. I have to say that more often than not, people think you are crazy when you go against the grain, alone.

Answer 4

I am not the same religion as my parents. At all.

I do belong to the same political party, but it is because I support the position of that party, and not because it's what my parents believe. I didn't even know their party affiliation when I was growing up.

Answer 5

Yep, I think a great many people are sheeple, which is unfortunate. Certainly in my opinion that is the ONLY reason any of these long-time religions have endured over centuries. Nothing more, nothing less than the indoctrination of the children by the parents, family, in schools, churches, community, and the society into which they are born and raised. It's almost a Hatfields and McCoys kind if thing. Those two families indoctrinated their children from birth that they were supposed to hate the other family and do 'em in any chance they got. Generations on down the line, nobody could even remember what the original feud was anyway, but they were so brainwashed that they went right on whupping up on the other side.

Children to a somewhat lesser degree, may be more likely to copy the political thinking of their parents rather than be actively indoctrinated. To the far greater degree, they ARE indoctrinated by multiple social elements when it comes to religion.

I was always one of those relative few who insisted on asking the forbidden question "but WHY?" and making the forbidden demand "Where did YOU get your information? Where is the evidence? I wasn't ever going to buy that old argument..."You just have to have faith" I didn't buy it as a kid and I never have since. That's the schtick of the successful con artist......"Trust me". Yeah, well I like better what President Ronald Reagan said one time..."Trust, but Veryify."

When you have been thoroughly conditioned during that most actively formative period of your child's mind, that this and this; that and that are so, at that early age most kids simply trust and accept what their elders are drumming into them. By the time they are old enough to start thinking for themselves, they can no longer ask "Why?" and "Who sez so?" because by then, they can't even separate out what they were indoctrinated to believe from what they think they believe on their own account; and people don't too often challenge their own thinking.

The exact same " mass indoctrination" is at work these days with the Showbiz and Sportsbiz so-called "celibrities". Even those charged with administering law and justice seem not to be immune to the "glitz", allowing these characters to get away with their wildest, wackiest, often downright criminal behaviours with little more than a wrist-slap (and perhaps their autograph). If the media hype their shinnanigans, and keep telling folks that these idiots are "celebrities"... the crowd mentality is to buy into it, and people are falling over one another to suck up the latest tidbit about what one of them did. The "Sheeple Factor" is alive and well in America LOL. Heck, it's everywhere else too now.

Actually I believe this is what is at work with most of the negative thinking about a-theists. "Atheists are scarey people with no moral compass" that sort of thing. Nobody stops to think that he might have been interracting on some friendly level with one for years. They don't usually go about saying "how do you do. I'm an a-theist" lol. If a strongly religious person suddenly discovers that his neighbor is "an atheist". his "conditioning" kicks right in gear. Almost instinctively, something in his head triggers a "pull-back" reaction. He may keep from showing it outwardly, but it's in there and it has been jolted. This is the "sheeple factor" again, and chances are it wont be long before he succumbs to the next part of his religious conditioning, which is to try to "convert" that person to....naturally the one and only true belief... his!

If people could just be stirred to as much passion about crime, about waste of resources, about the stupid adulation of so-called "Celebrities, and about all of our out-of-control breeding habits, not to mention the way in which more and more people are eating themselves into an early grave.... as they are over their religious beliefs and their politics, maybe THAT kind of "group thinking" could result in some really wonderful things happening that would be for the ultimate benefit of us all.

Answer 6

I don't think my parents were religious so no to that question.

My entire family are Liberal Democrats I from the time I could vote have stood as a staunch Republican.

As for the political beliefs of the church we have many from every party so I don't think that I follow the major belief in the same politics that they do.

Answer 7

I am of the popular political party of my region, my parents do not have a religion and neither do I.

Answer 8

No, I'm not the same religion as my parents.

No, I'm not the same political party.

No, I'm not in the most popular one for my region.

Answer 9

a lot of people are sheeple. i remember as a grade schooler, we were taking about the up coming presidential election and one girl in my class said she'd vote republican, because that's what her parents are...even then I was like what a crock.

my parents are conservative. i'm a moderate libertarian. this is not "popular" in my region. i'm in delaware.
my parents believe in god, but don't go to church all of the time. i'm atheist/agnostic.

Answer 10

Same religion? No (I am atheist, family christian)
Same political party? No (I am Libertarian, family Republicon)
I am not the same political party as my state majority (it is Democrat)