Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
What fascinates me about religion is how so many otherwise intelligent liberal people are hooked by it

Poor , uneducated people were scooped up by the missionaries and the Spanish spread Catholicism into South America

The Africans were perfectly happy until the white man threw bibles around

So it's fascinating that people who are not poor and vulnerable and poorly educated are religious

But that's where the fascination ends , the rest of my involvement or interest in religion , God etc is focused on telling people trying to convert me to their form of this cult to naff off
My thoughts are that if you indoictrinate a child and make their mindset dependent on a paticular belief system it has very profound effect indeed. Those caught up in such a scenario don't seem to consider that they would have been an equally strong believer in a different religion if they were born in a different time or place. Childhood indoctrination is incredibly powerful.
Few people become strong believers in belief systems that they weren't exposed to as children.