Russ, has it ever occurred to you as being even slightly odd that in almost every case across the planet, children who are of a religious bent adhere to the very same religion as their parents? No me neither, religion, all religions are about seizing a child before it has any sense of discernment and indoctrinating them into the usually quite odd and semi-mystical practice of the religious practices.
These odd practices range from some dirty ould relic slicing off perfectly good foreskins, some bushmamma mutilating a girls vadge to ensure she struggles to find any sort of sexual pleasure, for that would never do & I'll guarantee that was a man's idea, to having child brides of Christ running around in pseudo wedding dresses aged 8 or similar. The abhorrence of bacon is a bizarre one, truly amazing to a man who could live on bacon.
My personal favourite is the wee "I can't believe it's not Jesus" snack & the presumably god awful chape communion wine. Some believe it to mysteriously and actually become the meat (presumably all those foreskins) & blood of Christ, others that it is simply a symbol of the same thing. In either event I abhor the cannibalistic imagery of eating your saviour.
The world over indoctrination is how life is done, be it the singing of the company song in Japan, Masonic lodges in Belfast, and god knows how many ley & religious pieces of garbage that are held as not just important, but essential - utter feckin' madness. If folk stepped back briefly and looked at the number of ways they have been indoctrinated to make society work after a fashion, they would be amazed at the array of both harmless & harmful things they have bought into and allowed to be done to them.
In many ways the lunatics in states like North Dakota where they head for the hills and live in compounds, awaiting a visit from Louis Theroux, are amongst the more sensible of people, seeing both real and perceived threats to their personal sense of freedom, warped as many of their visions undoubtedly are, but they at least understand that free will is ripped from your being by all manner of indoctrinations almost as soon as you take your first breath on the seemingly long but in terms of the universe, a blink of the eye, roller-coaster which leads to your eternal death, despite what the sky pilots lie to you about.
Harrumph.
case it's nothing to do with what the world in general regards as culture, it's simply that when little Billy Orangebastard bleats about his "culture being attacked" he really means he wants to return to the days when his triumphalism was an inalienable right and any fenianbastard who didn't like it could go suck his cack.
