Originally Posted By: mirza


(Brainwashing doesn't have a negative connotation? Come on...)


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What else you want me to call it??
We are all being trained. They even train us on how and what to think too.
You know that here in North America Santa comes on Dec.25. How convinant for Christians. Kids start at a very young age. And if that is not brainwashing than what is it. You know how they say," Let's put Christ back in Christmas". We all know that pagan holiday we call Christmas was there long before Chrisk. But we still pretend like he was born on that day.


I think most people use the term brainwashing for more dangerous things (extremists, intelligence) connected to violence instead of raising children telling them stories about Santa Claus. Children are told all kinds of nice stories either religious or not, fairy-tales and myths, bacause they like it, it doesn't harm them in all cases (unless it includes values that go against common ethic values such as gender inequality etc). I don't see where the idea of Christmas plants violence into children's minds. Yes, Christmas was shifted to a time that had been a pagan holiday too. What's the big problem about that? Does the shift of the date make the basic idea obsolete?
May atheists celebrate either nothing or the lowest point of the sun (within the northern hemisphere) instead of Christmas on Dec24, I don't care. We as adults have the freedom of choice, or would you like to define churches as illegal institutions in the Canadian constitution?


Edited by rosetree (11/27/15 06:56 AM)