I grew up in a religious household and went to religious schools for 14 years. Yet, today, I reject what I was taught. In fact, my rejection started around age 8 years.
The missing item is the rest of the world. Critical thinking is part of the normal process of the brain. It helps to be taught this exists but you will naturally stumble into it. It may happen later in life than earlier, sure, but eventually, you run into someone like me. Someone who won’t be silenced and who will hoist a lamp to illuminate that darkness.
If not a person, it will be something else. If the individual chooses - and this is the key word here - chooses to ignore these inputs, they must actively do so every single time. The exception here may be a mentally challenged individual.
I don’t buy that she was somehow confused by it any more than I buy that Greene “was allowed to believe” - there comes a time as an adult when you must make a choice. So, these people choose willful ignorance. They aren’t fooled, they are deliberately choosing this.
The stunning part is that so many are so intellectually lazy that they exist surrounded by libraries, television, the internet and yet they chose this nonsense. That referral must be made to the American Psychological Association for diagnosis.
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