Should religion be a learned 'organized' or a self-led spirtual experience?

[Kilgore Trout]

As well as maintaining our ethics and knowledge of math, physics, biology, medicine, how to build a computer, how to plug a PC in and turn it on...

People get indoctrinated into how to build computers? I think the word you're looking for is e-d-u-c-a-t-i-o-n. Just a wee-bit different of concept that indoctrination...

 

[lunamoth]

People get indoctrinated into how to build computers? I think the word you're looking for is e-d-u-c-a-t-i-o-n. Just a wee-bit different of concept that indoctrination...

The word 'indoctrination' is being used as propaganda in the post I referred to. 'Indoctrination' is 'education' one doesn't like.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

The word 'indoctrination' is being used as propaganda in the post I referred to. 'Indoctrination' is 'education' one doesn't like.

What separates indoctrination from education is that indoctrination implies that what is being taught should not be questioned, is biased, and generally applies to an ideology, not something objectively factualy, such as math.

You think most children who are brought up within a particular religion are taught to question its teachings? This is simply not the case. Religion is taught as an unquestionable fact.

Therefore, religious education, is indoctrination. Additionally, it would be difficult to argue how religious indoctrination isn't a major contributing factor to the continuation of a religion. I don't see how this is propaganda.

 

[lunamoth]

What separates indoctrination from education is that indoctrination implies that what is being taught should not be questioned, is biased, and generally applies to an ideology, not something objectively factualy, such as math.

You think most children who are brought up within a particular religion are taught to question its teachings? This is simply not the case. Religion is taught as an unquestionable fact.

Therefore, religious education, is indoctrination. Additionally, it would be difficult to argue how religious indoctrination isn't a major contributing factor to the continuation of a religion. I don't see how this is propaganda.

Ok, that is a useful distinction. But it is not the way all religion is 'taught.' It is certainly not how I have been taught about Christianity. And, if you still want to make the comparison, then the vast majority of education is indeed 'indoctrination,' at least until one gets to the post-graduate level or a certain level of understanding.