Is religious knowledge the only type of input that requires fear, guilt and hypnotic repetitiveness?
July 28, 2009 - 6:42 pm
…to be installed? What about math? Sure, children get drilled with the multiplication table and their ability to memorize it is tested same as the table of elements in science classes. But once the rudiments of these two fields are learned by the child, logic takes over and knowledge gradually comes together in a child’s mind like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
But religious knowledge is different; there is no logic involved and it doesn’t fit in with any reality based knowledge – it is just forced upon the mind with the excuse that it is establishing morals. Is the use of fear, guilt and hypnotic repetitiveness the best way to establish morals?
This isn’t exclusive to religion, but it is the domain of systems of belief in general.