Here is the difference between Christianity "indoctrination" and your pseudo-science indoctrination...
Parents take their children to church and teach them about the world's oldest collection of historical records. Your religion, on the other hand, strips children from their homes and forces them to learn about evolution/big bang theory 8 hours a day for 10+ years. And the Bible is BANNED from your indoctrination centers... so who is doing the real indoctrination?
LOL... so much, and so wrong. Where do I start?
Firstly, as an atheist, I have
no "religion". Simply put, atheism is the acceptance that there is no credible scientific or factually reliable evidence for the existence of a god, gods or the supernatural. Atheists have
no holy book,
no holy men,
no temples of worship, and
no rites or dogma to adhere to. Atheist parents have no need "take their children" to a specific building every Sunday and listen to a mere mortal talk about what they should or should not be doing. Atheists think for themselves, and make their own decisions based on morals and ethics and science, rather than the ludicrously outdated writings in a book cobbled together by a group of disparate, ill-educated desert nomads—with not one scientist amongst the lot 2,500 years ago. A book that's not once been updated in all that time; a book that claims that animals can talk; that dolphins, whales and porpoises are fish; that unicorns exist; that the sun and the moon physically move across the sky; that virgin birth and resurrection are possible, as just a few examples of its erroneous content.
The Abrahamic bible is a "history book" relevant
only to the period it was written; it's certainly
not a "collection of [valid] historical records". It's a collection of things of a (then unbeknown) scientific nature that were simply beyond the comprehension of people 2,000 years ago, and which were grossly misinterpreted. The great flood being one major geophysical misrepresentation—and which has never been corrected to this day.
I have no idea what you mean when you claim atheism (
not our religion) "strips children form their homes"? As a theist do you subscribe solely to home learning, or are you simply using the phrase as an unnecessary pejorative? Do your children, or your friends' children not attend schools? Or do you consider all formal schooling as "forcing" erroneous, unfounded, spurious information upon childrens' minds? Do you truly think that mathematics, language, history, biology, physics, chemistry, philosophy, geography etc are a waste of time during that 8-hour school-day? Your claim that students spend the entire 8 hours being force-fed the theories of the so-called big bang and evolution are truly absurd!
It's also quite funny that you refer to schools as "indoctrination" centres, but you're apparently happy to accept churches are not, and that they also have a more relevant, worthwhile and purposeful task in educating our children. I can only challenge you to cite any evidence at all that supports this ludicrous claim. Show me someone educated solely in a church, and I'll show you a person of questionable ethics, distorted moral values, scientific ignorance, false modesty, hypocrisy, poorly developed powers of logic, sexual and clinical naivety, excessive combativeness, childish gullibility, and bigotry. You yourself tick quite a few of those boxes in fact.
And could you please confirm that as you're a practicing Christian, do you have a copy of the Torah, the Qur'an, theBhagavad-Gita, or the Yasna available for reading in your church? Or are they banned? I only ask because you'll find each of those in any non-religious or state school library; they're in no way banned.
Finally, religion relies almost totally on indoctrination. Indoctrination is defined as "instruction in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc, especially to imbue with a specific
partisan or
biased belief or point of view" and "to teach (a person or group of people) systematically to accept doctrines,
especially uncritically". Sounds more like preaching than teaching to me.