Religious indoctrination
Definition:
Indoctrinate: Each (a person or
group) to accept a set of beliefs
uncritically.
https://www.lexico.com/en/defin
ition/indoctrinate
Religious indoctrination:
implies forcibly or coercively
causing people to act and think
on the basis of a certain
ideology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ind
octrination
How: Children are being taught
that what their enders are saying
are fact, with no “Chance of
error.”
Most Christian church
organizations heavily involve
children in many different
events. Sunday school, summer
Bible camps, wilderness retreats,
catechism or confirmation,
plays, and musical ceremonies
top that particular list.
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.co
m/2015/05/15/childhood-indoctr
ination-religions-greatest-weapo
n/
Ages:
“ Most often, this is done when
the individual is particularly
young,
Why? when he or she lacks the
ability to reasonably conclude
whether or not a statement is
true.”
Slightly older children are
taught things like Bible stories,
rehearsed prayers, and christian
hymns.
During 3 to 8 is when “children
are most receptive which is why
Why do people believe in God
“Religious fundamentalism:
which refers to the belief in the
absolute authority of a religious
text or leaders.”
https://www.psychologytoday.co
m/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/2
01810/how-religious-fundamenta
lism-hijacks-the-brain
Ultimate Cause: how a behavior
evolved in the first place.
Proximate cause: the conditions
in which that evolved behavior
will be performed.
People started to believe in god
about “a quarter Million years
ago.”
What is Christan Science
Christan Science was made by
Mary Baker Eddy she said
says that Christan Science is
“the law of god, the law of
good...”. She believes that god
“is infinite love, completely
good” and it was the power to
“heal and transform anyone”.
https://www.christianscience.c
om/what-is-christian-science?i
cid=Homepage:main-menu:W
hat%20is%20Christian%20Sci
ence%3F
Healing bible verses
Mary Eddy Baker/ Examples
Mary Eddy Baker
The was a bible student and she
always wanted to “find a
solution to human suffering”.
https://www.christianscience.com/what-is-christian-science?icid
=Homepage:main-menu:What%20is%20Christian%20Science%
3F
As an author and teacher, she
helped promote healing through
mental and spiritual teachings.
Born
She was born in 1821, Bown,
New Hampshire
Religion
She is apart and founded the
Christian Science
Belief
“She helped promote healings
through metal and spiritual
teachings. She vigorously
studied the bible, experimented
with alternative forms of
medicine, rejected prescription
drugs from doctors.
Death
She spent childhood bedridden
Sickness
She spent childhood bedridden
from chronic deadly Illness
(don’t know what it is?)
Cause of death
Parents
“Both parents were apart of the
protestant Congregationalist
denomination”.
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographie
s/mary-eddy
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Examples
-Mary Eddy Baker-
education is most important She was critically injured in
during this period of time.” 1866, “she turned to God with
her whole heart”. She said she
Age of reason: “The age of felt a phone new sense of God
reason is typically considered to when she was reading
be around 6 or 7, when the child “accounts of Jesus’ swift,
begins to have the capabilities to powerful healings”.
weigh options and reach
conclusions.”
http://sciencenetlinks.com/lesso
ns/growth-stages-1-infancy-and-
early-childhood/

BIBLE:
-You shall teach them diligently
to your children, and shall talk
of them when you sit in your
house, when you walk by the
way, when you lie down, and
when you rise up”
(Deuteronomy 6:6, 7); “Train up
a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not
depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6);
“Fathers, do not provoke your
children to wrath, but bring
them up in the training and
admonition of the Lord”
(Ephesians 6:4).
https://www.focusonthefamily.c
om/family-qa/religious-indoctrin
ation-of-children/

Examples of Religious
indoctrination

Religious indoctrination
- How
- Ages, 3 to 8 learning

Why do people believe in God

Examples

Psychology Emotion

Kids in ability to concept fact/reason

 Sources:

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2015/05/15/childhood-indoctrination-religions-greatest-weapon/

Religious Indoctrination - process

Balancing

Brain Washing
- Examples

“Miracles examples”

Why people believe in religion as their last options

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/12/believe
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201810/how-religious-fundamentalism-hijacks-the
-brain
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2013/03/religion-spirituality

https://www.focusonthefamily.com/family-qa/religious-indoctrination-of-children/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201810/how-religious-fundamentalism-hijacks-the
-brain
Anno - ​https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-apes/201808/why-do-people-believe-in-god

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/12/believe

Anno - ​https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2015/05/15/childhood-indoctrination-religions-greatest-weapon/