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Religion is the First Lie A Child Learns to Believe

When a child is born, even before they know it, they are often baptized into one lie or another, by the very people they learn to trust the most - their parents. That the parents indoctrinate their child into the lie of their own religion out of fear, habit, and conformity, never leads the parents to doubt the authenticity of the "religion" they insist is based on faith, on the one hand, and is nevertheless a total infallible "fact," on the other.

This is the beauty of religion, that it can be whatever it needs to be. It is a chameleon of the highest order, posing as "infallible truth" whenever the "believer" wants it to be, and as a "mystery of faith" whenever it cannot stand the light of reason. Religion, then, is a wonder twin, that can take any shape it needs in the mind of the "believer," including one that elevates complete ignorance of something to the height of supreme intelligence.

Ask a "true believer" about any number of subjects they may know absolutely nothing about, and they will assure you they know as much about those subjects as the most learned scholars; more in fact.  For if the most learned scholars declare some understanding about, say, the solar system or human sexuality, that does not conform precisely to the "beliefs" that the believer has come to revere even more than themselves, and the "believer" will count it their opportunity, if not their "god-given" obligation, to  correct all those who have stumbled into their divine understanding of the world, indeed the universe, and everything in it.

And to question how such a person knows so much about everything in the universe, especially given they have never read a single book on any of the subjects they now insist they are experts on, they will assure you that they have gleamed all of the intelligence there is to know about the universe, from having read a single book. That that single book is perhaps the greatest book of lies ever written, which they have accepted to the letter as being infallibly true (despite it being only as steeped in debauchery and blood lust as it is in ambiguity and contradictions) never deters the "believer" from believing they have a perspective of the universe that is nothing short of a God's eye view.

This person then convinces their child that every lie they have ever learned is the absolute truth, and nothing but the truth, and all for the sole purpose of preparing that child to accept every other lie that society is waiting to pour into their mushy little head, be they racists or economic, be they political or personal.

And of course the child, having been conditioned since birth to accept the "truth" of the lies they are born into, will readily accept them all, even as they parrot back the lie that they are taught, that to "not believe" in God is to believe in anything, even though the very opposite is true.  

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