Indoctrination and fear

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Ghandi.

My principle experience with religion is with Christianity, but I have a made a point in reading up on others and have discussed religious ideas with followers of Islam and Buddhism.

I thought, when I was young, that it must be my misunderstanding of religion that was the problem. Now many years later I see it was the very ideas that were involved as well as the hypocrisy that turned my stomach.

To be perfectly honest, religions disgust me and I'm constantly amazed on meeting otherwise intelligent people, especially university graduates, who have been taught critical thinking, who have this blind spot of idiocy.

I can only assume it’s because of childhood indoctrination and fear.