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Would Christianity die off if they couldn't indoctrinate children?

Before those children have developed reasoning skills.

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  • Nous
    Lv 7
    2 months ago
    Favourite answer

    The only way primitive religion exists today is through the child abuse of forcing it into very, very young children but thanks to better education and growing intellects so many teens are able to discover the truth, throw off the indoctrination and step into the real world!

    So atheism is not a conscious decision or a belief but a realisation!Christianity is shrinking faster year on year as education and intelligence improves!

  • ?
    Lv 5
    2 months ago

    Christianity will end in the same way that all over dead religions have died. 

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    Nope. Thousands of adults who have grown up either atheist or members of other religions discover the fullness of God's truth and become Christians every year. When missionaries travel to foreign lands to preach God's truth, they don't preach to the children, but to the adults, who are then responsible for bringing that truth to their children.

  • Dick
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    Yes. Religion depend on a high birth rate (and brainwashing from birth) to sustain their numbers. A great deal more Christians leave each year than are converted.

  • Anonymous
    2 months ago

    Grow up and learn the difference between indoctrinate and educate.

  • 2 months ago

    No I highly doubt it 

    Were hereto stay

  • Alex
    Lv 4
    2 months ago

    Define "indoctrinate."

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    Christ Himself describes how families would be torn apart precisely because of the opposite of what you are describing. Parents would come to believe and children would not. Wives and husbands would come to believe and mothers-in-law would not. Children would come to believe and parents would not.

    Why?

    It is because this REALLY isn't a cult or some kind of 'brilliant' brainwashing technique. It is a VERY personal experience between each individual person and GOD. It transcends race, birth class, gender, age and every other category. It cannot be 'inherited,' though there are 'legacy' families, (like Timothy in the Bible), where the families are blessed in generational succession. But each person still makes up their own mind and comes to this decision in their heart. There is no way to 'make Christianity die off.' If it was possible, evil would have done it long ago.

    You are more than welcome to try, however. Every failed attempt only strengthens our faith and the Church Herself. You will find yourself fighting GOD. 

    "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.

    "We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,

    and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete." (2 Corinthians 10:3-6).

  • 2 months ago

    No.  There will always be a remnant.  I, for one, became a Christian in my late twenties.  

    Source(s): The New Testament (recommended reading)
  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    i would hope not

  • 2 months ago

    You mean children like you. WHO think they have reasoning skills but actually know bupkiss?

    Why? do you want to kill all of us for teaching our kids about God

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