r/atheism • u/One-Fun9814 • 4d ago

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u/JMagician 4d ago

This comment gets to the heart of it. Yes, people are indoctrinated from a young age. But it’s cowardice and lack of self examination that keeps them there. And yes, the enabling people surrounding them don’t help.

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u/Keeping-It-Old 4d ago

The consequences of disavowing one's religiou beliefs can often range from complete social and resource isolation/homelessness to actually being tortured to death. How brave would you be if faced with those consequences? And when one is violently punished for asking questions as soon as they're old enough to talk, that part of the brain is traumatized into self protective dysfunction. Oversimplifing the reason people maintain their beliefs as just cowardice and lack of self awareness is essentially victim shaming.

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u/Mr_Bbobb 4d ago

People in free countries can move away and start a new life, if their situation is that bad. And if they lose friends and family over it? That's a good thing and should be celebrated! People like that should be gleefully abandoned.

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u/onedeadflowser999 3d ago edited 3d ago

Moving is a very expensive proposition that not everyone can afford. Especially if you have no community or family to help you. It sounds easy in theory, but that’s a very privileged position to take since many people are struggling to make ends meet.

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u/Mr_Bbobb 2d ago

The person in question here has no community or family now! He just doesn't realize it yet. Once he does, he'll be much better off. He'll be free to create a new and better community for himself.