Brainwashed Religious Followers Create More Followers
I like to refer to it as the blind leading the blind, but that can
sound a little harsh to some of us, because we often don't want to
view ourselves as brainwashed or belonging to some type of cult.
However, there's no other way to explain this behavior. Religious
followers listen to information that might not be true and in some
cases cannot be validated rationally, yet continue to follow their
leaders blindly.
This same behavior can also be applied to people who believe
wholeheartedly in other things like politics, health, parenting,
education and finances.
Brainwashing is the direct result of accepting information without
questioning it.
Your grandparents believed in God, your parents believe in God and
there's a good chance you're going to believe in God also, but which
God will you ultimately choose to believe in.
Jehovah is the God of the Jews, Allah is the God of the Muslims,
Jesus is the God of the Christians and Brahma is one of the gods of
the Hindus.
Let me see if I can make it easy .
It's simple, your place of birth and parents usually make a choice
for you. If your parents are Muslims and you were born in the United
States, then there's a good chance you're going to be a Muslim until
you question the information you're having a difficult time
accepting, simply because someone tells you that it's true.
This is usually what separates the thinkers from the followers. At
one point in a religious follower's life, while making the
transformation to a thinker, will need to find the truth or at least
the best version of it.
This is actually what happened to me. I was instructed to follow the
rules of Christianity, but when the promise of a better life always
seemed to be right around the corner, yet just far enough out of my
reach, you know, all you need is to do is pray and believe in Jesus
and everything will work out, yet rarely does.
Well I finally got tired of waiting around and listening to false
promises. I took it upon myself to find out whether or not
Christianity could actually fulfill some of their promises for a
better life.
After about two decades of searching haphazardly, I made an educated
stance against religion, but this isn't common. I gathered as much
information as I possibly could and made a rational assessment using
tangible information.
I did what most religious followers for whatever reason choose to
avoid like the plague. I took the hard evidence and went through it
with a fine tooth comb.
The results were life changing. The best way I could describe it
would be similar to a religious followers being saved by an
imaginary God.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the view from my side of
the river of rational thinking is totally awesome. Breaking away
from unrealistic beliefs can open your eyes in ways you never
imagined.
However, brainwashed individuals don't do these things, they simply
follow the leader, without ever doubting most of the information
they receive from their leaders.
This actually creates the ideal follower for governments and the
richest people in the world. These are the ideal worker bees in
society and most of them can be convinced with only small amounts of
propaganda to fight for an illusion of freedom.
This follow the leader mentality creates generations of the same
type of individuals. They can be convinced to believe practically
anything through the media and charismatic individuals.
The only way we will be able to break this chain of following
unbelievable information will be to eventually start questioning it.