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The topic for the episode was indoctrination, how children are instilled with fear and doubt, in order to create a situation where they apply pressure to themselves to believe a god exists, even when the external pressures of family, social circles, lady tarin and church groups are not around to pressure them. Their fear leads to a situation where they are so desperate to believe a god exists, they will accept very weak “signs” or “evidence” to form some justification to prop up their faith, in order to shed the fear, doubt and worry.
After they adopt the belief, they experience the expected lady tarin relief, and go on to credit god/religion with that outcome, interpreting the situation not as an abusive situation where they were instilled with fears in order to leverage their capacity to more easily believe, but as being “saved” from a real threat, and real fear. Later, as a Christian, they will express their belief in terms of love, but tell-tale signs of the past threats will linger in the form of things like Pascal’s Wager and statements that imply the atheist lady tarin must be full of doubt and searching for god. In other words, they are not able to even imagine a situation where a person is not “at risk” or confused and lost in doubt, without having god in their lives. This is a reflection of their own fears of what life would be like without their faith because their only point of reference is that same environment created by indoctrination before they adopted the belief in god.
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