Secular Café: Is religion an adiction?

Secular Café Discuss atheism, religious apologetics, separation of church & state, theology, comparative religion and scripture.

Is religion an adiction? Apr 9th 2012, 20:23 You know, I was a Jehovah's Witness for pretty much the first 16 years of my life. I can't remember a day, an hour or even a second, before I ran away that I wasn'r awear of the idea that God was everywhere and effected everything. I can't remember ever asking myself why bad things happen and even when I was getting older, it never dawned on me to think about the existence of dinosaurs on our world and, probably a whole myriad of, IN YOUR FACE questions that seemed to debunk some of the so-called truths of Christianity. I just excepted the whole thing fit together and excepted the whole thing as carved in stone truth. Is this child abuse? since many are taught that the rest of the world is somehow disturbed and should be looked at as a tainted place and the people in it somehow lost and without guidance. This cements the idea that without a God those around you have absolutly nothing to show them how to act and how to treat people. It also places the image that those outside your religion, which includes other religions are in dire physical peril, which only God can relieve. I'd like to ask you guys 2 questions. (1) Is this not Child Abuse? (2) Does this level of indoctrination remind you of the mindset you'd think more attributed to the relationship between a highly addicted addict and hi/her drug of choice?

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