No, not convincing at all. That’s why they go after children with this bs at the youngest age possible. It was fucking terrifying when I was around 11 or so and started accepting that I didn’t believe anything they told me at church.
Without indoctrination religion wouldn’t go away completely, but it would be reduced to small random cults, that everyone wouid laugh at and avoid like the plague.
Yep. I tried harder and harder to convince myself I believed so that I wouldn’t burn in hell for eternity if I died. I wonder why I have anxiety? I mean it’s totally healthy to be a literal child and trying to gaslight yourself into believing in something that makes no sense so you won’t be tortured for eternity, right?
No, not convincing at all. That’s why they go after children with this bs at the youngest age possible. It was fucking terrifying when I was around 11 or so and started accepting that I didn’t believe anything they told me at church.
Without indoctrination religion wouldn’t go away completely, but it would be reduced to small random cults, that everyone wouid laugh at and avoid like the plague.
Considering how many are against vaccines for COVID-19, MMR and HPV, it may not avoiding them like the plague but because of.
Pedant's note
I am aware that those are not the plague.
Yep. I tried harder and harder to convince myself I believed so that I wouldn’t burn in hell for eternity if I died. I wonder why I have anxiety? I mean it’s totally healthy to be a literal child and trying to gaslight yourself into believing in something that makes no sense so you won’t be tortured for eternity, right?