I believe Christianity employs indoctrination as a method to inculcate unquestioning devotion. I feel there is strong evidence that indoctrination is a system of abuse. This practice causes psychological and emotional damage to the victim. The abuse manifests in different forms such as identity loss, guilt syndrome, stygiophobia, death anxiety, sexual repression, compulsivity, and self blame. Victims actively and unknowingly participate in their own abuse. These abuses have deleterious long term impacts for the victim and can be correlated to higher levels of depression, anxiety, self deception, denial, somatic concerns, and dissociative disorders.
Indoctrination: to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle.
Some mechanisms for indoctrination using in-group dynamics include pressure, coercion, manipulation, and control. Analytical approaches toward indoctrination implicitly suggest an inherent immoral process. So why is there a need for indoctrination? The goal is personal, emotional, and psychological dependence on the in-group for the furtherance of the in-groups objectives. The indoctrination process effectively detaches the victim from active critical thinking, reduces self identity, and alters the individuals perception of out-group values in favor of in-group prejudices and biases. Once total submission to the group and the imposition of absolute authority is achieved the inculcation of unquestioning belief is completed. The victims ability for reality based value judgements outside of the in-groups partisanship is greatly reduced. At this point doctrine becomes a self contained regime within the victim for the purpose of the victims continued self deception and for perpetuating the in-groups agenda.
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