How I avoided right wing indoctrination: the church told me as a child that gay marriage is immoral, so everything else they said immediately became suspect.
For me it started when the church told me people of other religions didn't go to heaven.
I asked them "what if they're the ones who are right and we end up in hell for following a false god?", and only got a "lol we're right" as an answer. That day I stopped believing in anything the church and my catholic school said.
I was a libertarian for a short while, but then I realized I didn't hate everyone else so I started reading about marxism
Yeah, my libertarianism was mostly fueled by the corruption in mexico's government.
It made believe business were a better solution to societal problems.
Now I'm working on an article linking perception of government corruption with economic inequality.
I truly believe that is big business' new approach to weaken regulations
That was one of the first contradictions for me. The "we're being persecuted!" narrative combined with the "They're trying to legalize gay marriage!" narrative.
How are Christians being persecuted if non-Christians are the ones living under Christian theocratic laws?
Also the story about Stalin giving kids candy definitely had the opposite effect on me.
The teacher asked the class who believed in God. I am a Catholic Christian, so I raised my hand. Most of my other classmates did as well. She sort of had this smirk on her face when she asked everyone to pray to God for anything they wanted – so of course you could hear all of the children, including myself, praying. We prayed for mostly bikes, toys and other innocent things a five year old would pray for.
After we were done with our prayers, the teacher asked us all to open our eyes and see if all the things we prayed for God to give us were there. Of course there was nothing there, just us. So the teacher asked us to close our eyes again and pray to Fidel Castro for a piece of chocolate candy. We all closed our eyes and asked for the candy.
At that moment I could see from the corner of my eyes as my head was down, the teacher had a bag with her, and was dropping a piece of what looked like candy on each of our tables. When she was finished she asked us all to open our eyes and see if Fidel Castro was generous to give us the candy we had prayed for. Most of the students cheered in laughter and glee at how great Fidel Castro was.
first link on google -> https://news.unclesamsmisguidedchildren.com/communist-indoctrination-exchanging-a-piece-of-candy-for-truth/
I don't remember this being about Cuba and Castro specifically, but when I was a kid this story was taught somewhere like it was a big deal.
How I avoided right wing indoctrination: the church told me as a child that gay marriage is immoral, so everything else they said immediately became suspect.
For me it started when the church told me people of other religions didn't go to heaven. I asked them "what if they're the ones who are right and we end up in hell for following a false god?", and only got a "lol we're right" as an answer. That day I stopped believing in anything the church and my catholic school said.
I was a libertarian for a short while, but then I realized I didn't hate everyone else so I started reading about marxism
Sound anything like this?
Yeah, my libertarianism was mostly fueled by the corruption in mexico's government. It made believe business were a better solution to societal problems. Now I'm working on an article linking perception of government corruption with economic inequality. I truly believe that is big business' new approach to weaken regulations
That was one of the first contradictions for me. The "we're being persecuted!" narrative combined with the "They're trying to legalize gay marriage!" narrative.
How are Christians being persecuted if non-Christians are the ones living under Christian theocratic laws?
Also the story about Stalin giving kids candy definitely had the opposite effect on me.
What’s the Stalin giving kids candy thing?
another reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/1d76iw/do_you_want_some_candy/c9nlc1x/
first link on google -> https://news.unclesamsmisguidedchildren.com/communist-indoctrination-exchanging-a-piece-of-candy-for-truth/
I don't remember this being about Cuba and Castro specifically, but when I was a kid this story was taught somewhere like it was a big deal.
classic Freudian slip
Lol that’s so fuckin stupid, thanks