Make Religious Indoctrination Illegal?
Date: April 22, 2012 06:47PM
Its been a while since I visited this site after my negative Landmark experience but I can see the same old things are still going on with that vile organisation and other similar look a likeys, Here is an idea I thought would be interesting to debate. After my experience I have read many books and publications directly or indirectly linked with cult behaviour. The conclusion I have come to is while there are many reasons why individuals become brainwashed by these groups, the most frequent one is dissolution. A very specific dissolution that the faith system that has been rammed into their brains since childhood does not fulfil them or set them at peace with the world. Hence they feel the need to seek out the computer equivalent of an upgrade or plug in. I witnessed this personally with many Landmark Drones.
Taking this thought further seems to me that it comes back to the old argument that religion is the root cause of most of human society’s problems. Personally I don’t subscribe to this. I think its more down to the way the programming is administered. For the vast majority, religion isn’t a choice, you are subjected to it by your parents and community at an age where you have little experience or opportunity to question what you are being told. Of course many are able to ultimately reject the indoctrination as they grow older or adopt another faith of their choice, but a lot don’t and end up in a state of confusion and dissolution. Landmark, Scientology etc have evolved to a large extent to take advantage of these individuals. I would be interested to hear others thoughts on this.
Moving up several gears, here is another thought (and set aside practicality issues while you consider this). Would the world be a better place if it became illegal for Parents to indoctrinate their children with religion? The premise being that the vast majority of the current fundamentalism and intolerance systemic to almost all mass based faiths would be drastically reduced, if not eliminated.