🇨🇦 pappo :
The key factor that maintains religious practice and adherence is "programming from birth". Intensive, sustained brainwashing, that's the key concept for the success of ALL religions. Our birth geography will for the most part determine what religious belief system we (as infants and young children) will be unwillingly indoctrinated into by parents and trusted caregivers. All religions are completely invented by humans (primarily men) to try to explain gaps in our knowledge, understanding and experience of life. Unwillingly indoctrinated (by parents, family, trusted caregivers) from infancy, under the "super glue" influence of extended family, schools, churches, and religious instruction, all with continuous repetition for that shiny "stainless steel" finish of reinforcement. Religion (faith is fear masquerading as virtue) is then used to control and manipulate people's lives through threats of punishment, fear of abandonment (current life and eternity) and post-life promises of utopian reward; all in the absence of reasonable, verifiable evidence. Remove sustained life long indoctrination and reinforcement and religions will face away. In the mean time, here is the good news. Facts over feelings, facts over faith, facts over fiction. Myth, fable, fantasy and fairy tale! That's what ALL religion is, was and will be, forever and ever. Amen. 😊
2026-08-09 10:53:58