Quote Originally Posted by mfqr
Christians, and especially Evangelical christians, are indoctrinating children to their beliefs. It's all teached in a biased way, and another view is never given except it's because of "God." Now, if you consider how children generally are... they really have no idea or reference of any other belief. So if you give them this idea from a young age, before they start to form their own opinions etc., they almost have no choice but to accept that belief - since they don't have any other references of how the world is. It's all brainwashing. The Bible also fits the definition of "propaganda" perfectly.

I disagree, those people brought up from birth as a Christian usually are the weakest Christians of them all. They put on a good Christian face on sundays, but in their private time they rebel and do anything non-christian.

There are people that are fake Christians, and those that really do act as the bible teaches. Few people really act as Christians are taught to, few Christians even read the bible. I'd say maybe 1% or so of people that go to church are really a true Christian, maybe less than that. Most people do not follow any of the teachings at all, they just pick and choose a few things of what to follow, usually they just do what the preacher tells them to do, which in many cases is NOT what the bible teaches.

Main example, the entire Catholic religion. The bible clearly says not to call anyone other than God "father", the bible says not to lavish yourselves in riches, the pope does this, and of course....who the hell is the pope? Christians are supposed to worship God, nobody else, especially human! lol I mean seriously if you actually read through the bible it clearly teaches to do exactly what the Catholic religion does all the time! I have never understood this! Maybe somebody can try to explain it to me, I don't know any Catholics myself so I'm just an outsider peeking in, but Christians don't seem to ever care about being lumped in with Catholics and many their traditions and teachings have come from the Catholic church.