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Resisting religious indoctrination

Many people perceive life through myths such as heaven and hell, original sin, the existence of a Saviour, the Last Judgement, etc. This is precisely what I call "being indoctrinated". Before we complain that others are too indoctrinated, it would be good to take an introspective look at the indoctrination that our culture has imbued us with.

Resisting religious faith

Is God good or paradoxical?
Paradise
The menace of hell
Absolute truth has the major defect of being multiple
Pascal's wager 1/4: What kind of bets should be put on the table?
Pascal's wager 2/4: On the likelihood that a given religion is true
Pascal’s wager 3/4: Mathematical model and rebuttal
Pascal's wager 4/4: Reversal. What minimises loss, Christianity or atheism?
Faith, science and epistemology
From agnosticism to atheism via the principle of simplicity or Occam's razor
Resisting faith: answers to some objections
Overcoming the fear of death
Post-traumatic stress
Succeeding in the abandonment of faith
Freeing oneself from the grip of religion
The ultimate religion: Adepts of Terminus
From the stick as a gift to the meaning of life - Philosophical tale
The search for happiness - Philosophical tale
Healing - Philosophical tale

Resisting social control by the Church

Clericalism, never again! - Testimony
Clericalism and secularism in the canton of Fribourg (Switzerland)
Should the state privilege one religion?
State, religion and humanism
Resisting the teaching of the Church: human rights, morals, secular culture
Some shortcomings of the Catholic Church in secular morality
Ecology and Judeo-Christianity
Power and authority: the parable of the magic pact
About the Swiss Centre for Islam and Society, Fribourg
Resisting pressure from relatives in religious matters
Denouncing the exploitation of guilt

Revocation of the divine judge

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Denouncing the exploitation of guilt

I feel concerned by any testimony about intensive indoctrination accompanied by the exploitation of feelings of guilt. In my personal experience, I have been plagued from within by moral conflicts in which I felt trapped. I had to find a way out. I started by developing my critical mind, which resulted in a multitude of thoughts that I put down in writing, often a simple sentence whose themes, inspired by daily life, jump from one subject to another. The solution was within me - it was to be coherent with oneself - but it still had to be freed from the social straitjacket by resisting traditional ways of thinking about life. Much later, I grouped these "thoughts" by theme, and I realised that they formed a fairly coherent whole, provided I filled in the gaps and composed linking texts. And there I felt the immense satisfaction of having been able to express myself, of having left the zone of obscure and confused feelings, of having resolved my inner conflicts and of finally f...

Some shortcomings of the Catholic Church in secular morality

An institution which, throughout its history, has flouted human rights cannot be "the" moral benchmark. Progress has not come from a movement of the Church itself, but has been snatched from it by the demands of modernity. The Church vigorously combats relativism, the thesis that all religions are equal. In order to do so, it should have been superior to other religions as an institution. Unfortunately, this was not the case. We will see that the Church has never respected human rights, neither in the past nor today. It is said that history is written by victors. I would rather say that it is rewritten by each power for the people under its influence. The role of the Church has often been presented with partisan benevolence. Believers, generally not very curious, are so one-sided that they are ready to excuse all turpitudes. All religions are exposed to slip-ups because, rather than cultivating moderation, they incite people to do more and more, in an endless bidding war, and...

Faith, science and epistemology

Nothing is worse than faith that gives the illusion of ultimate knowledge, for example Catholicism's claim to be the depositary of Truth. Becoming aware of our ignorance leads to a more modest attitude which is also more in keeping with our human condition. From subjection to emancipation. In relation to religion, the history of science is essentially that of the passage from subjection to emancipation. In 391, Emperor Theodosius I decreed that Christianity was the state religion of the Roman Empire. By banning "pagan" cults, he established a widespread and institutionalised intolerance to which the ecclesiastical authorities adhered. For example, in 393, he had the Olympic Games banned because they were considered too pagan. The authoritarian attitude of the Church is based on the doctrine of the "just persecution" of St. Augustine (354 - 430): " If we want to be true, then let us say that the persecution of the ungodly against the Church of Christ is unju...

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