As for brainwashing:
Religion does not involve brainwashing, Rosie. Not our religion, anyway.
Our God is a God of love. This is a truth that you are free to accept or reject. Even accepting this truth, you are free to act on it, or not. The consequences for your actions are your own, and a result of your OWN choices.
Nobody is or should be using psychological pressure of trickery to take away your God-given right to make up your own mind.
Again: when i pointed this out, take it in context with other failings of mainstream society: MTV, breastimplants, nosejobs, gang violence all dis-validate the claims of CPS that they have a better life on offer for these children.
That brainwashing is also wrong when done by church leaders (pure of intention or otherwise) remains unchanged, but that was not what i was saying.
As for attrocities of the far past:
People in general used to be illiterate, die at 40 and have no teeth after the age of 25... that things were a certain way in the past does not mean they have to be that way forever, or that we should follow by example.
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