Archbishop "make sure young people are not "brainwashed"" - Pot calling kettle b

Comer1

http://news.sky.com/story/1288330/archbishops-call-to-combat-brainwashing

"All religious leaders, whatever tradition they come from, have got a duty to work together to make sure that our young people are not being brainwashed into some kind of nonsense."

He may be talking about radicalism, but brainwashing is brainwashing.

Brainwashing of our children is the fuel that keeps religion going from one generation to another. If it were possible to expose young people to religious beliefs only after say the age of 12, religion would find it very difficult to survive in the world.

endacl

Comer1 wrote: »

Brainwashing of our children is the fuel that keeps religion going from one generation to another. If it were possible to expose young people to religious beliefs only after say the age of 12, religion would find it very difficult to survive in the world.

As would Winnie the Pooh.

Pherekydes

No religion, so no children's stories either?

Dades

Irony aside, he's coming from the right place. But yeah - brainwashing is only what other religions do.

Comer1 wrote: »

Brainwashing of our children is the fuel that keeps religion going from one generation to another. If it were possible to expose young people to religious beliefs only after say the age of 12, religion would find it very difficult to survive in the world.

I believe this to be true.

Religion is like circumcision; if you wait until someone is older to tell them about it, they probably won't be interested.

endacl

Pherekydes wrote: »

No religion, so no children's stories either?

Not at all. Simply commenting on the similar mechanism. I love Winnie, because I read it first as a wee kid. If I heard about it first as an adolescent, probably not so much. Religion I left behind because I was expected to continue believing something unbelievable. Winnie was allowed to become fiction once I got to a point in my cognitive development where I could discern between fiction and reality.

wretcheddomain

Not only is the pot and kettle black, but also the cutlery, crockery and saucepans.

Cabaal

Comer1 wrote: »

but brainwashing is brainwashing.

ah but you forgot the most important thing,
His religion is the right kind of brain washing in his view

expectationlost

yes please kill in the name of lies, not faith (or power as its really about) much better, althoug hboth bush and bliar said god told them to engage in these invasions