Thread: Is catholic school brainwashing?

I didn't go to a Catholic school, but I feel I have some level of understanding surrounding this.
I won't answer the poll, because my answer is a bit split.
Before I say anything, let me just say that I mean no disrespect to any Catholics. The following is only speculation.


On one hand, I firmly believe that the Catholic schools have no intention of brainwashing, at all.


On the other hand, Catholicism itself, somehow in its creation and evolution over time, has caused the practice to turn into something like brainwashing.
Check out https://www.alternet.org/belief/50-r...atholic-church

In my opinion, Christianity is vastly misunderstood, even by those practicing it. The reason being, it's not taught properly. People develop a dependency on the word of a priest or a book, which is often either said wrongly, or misunderstood.
You can talk to God any time you want, and if you just open yourself up enough, you can hear/feel the answer. It's not difficult. But they don't teach that, as far as I'm aware.
Christianity (especially Catholicism, probably) is a cataclysm of misunderstanding and fear-based thinking. That's where the brainwashing comes in.

Some say that the brainwashing is actually deliberate. Some claim that dark forces are controlling Christianity (and some other religions).
The dark forces that control the world WANT us all to be in a constant state of fear.
Some will say that those dark forces are the Illuminati. Some will say it's the Annunaki. Some say the Reptilians. Some say they are all connected.

And I'm putting a great big target on my head by saying these things. So if this is the last you hear of me, you'll know what happened. xD

Please forgive my controversial discussion here! If you can't handle it, look away!


About the Annunaki, I've only just been pointed towards information about them. But I am actually staggered by how hidden the information is. It's not taught in schools or anything, but the info is there, available to us all. But *they* don't want us to look at it.
If you want to know about the Annunaki, look up "Ancient Sumer", it's mindblowing.

But there is an interesting thing about it which I'll mention here.

There are a lot of similarities between the creation story in The Bible, to the creation story in Sumerian ancient texts (even older than The Bible).
I'll sum it up by saying, as per the Sumerian texts, the Annunaki are the Gods (highly evolved alien race) which created the human race by taking Neanderthal DNA and mixing it with their own, and thus creating humans in their own image.
The Annunaki created us as primitive workers to mine gold for them.

The Annunaki now fear us because, well, they didn't expect us to grow so rapidly, and now we've got humans ascending into Godhood and the world is now covered in "Lightworkers". We are now a threat to them.

But my point is, Christians may be unknowingly devoted to a being, (Enki I think, the ruler of the Annunaki), which only wants to control us and does NOT have our best interests at heart.


HOWEVER, The Bible is written in such a way that it sounds like it's referring to the God of all things. Which means, there's nothing wrong with practicing it, so long as it's taken with a pinch of salt.
Personally I think The Bible is full of great wisdoms. But I also think there's a hidden dark side to it.

And by the way I don't want people to just believe me. You can look this up yourself and decide for yourself.
It really is just my own speculation. I don't know the actual truth, obviously.

I like too think that the world is like a computer, and religion/s are like antivirus programs. They have served a purpose for people but its definetly time for a update. Imagine in the old days when it was ok too have sex with animals and weird stuff imagine what kind of weird dieseases could have been created. I also think its very obvious the world is alot older then we understand, but humans have terrible memories, and trying to explain to them world history for the last 50000000 years would probably just confuse us, maybe somebody decided lets just keep information too the minimum off what is relevant too humans purpose, and now that humans are starting too have a better understanding new information is starting too come back. What would a person do with this information 1700 when half of everyone was dying of the plague etc.

easier too brain wash when on drugs hahah

I wouldn't call i brainwashing. That term has too many associations.

The adults in any culture and society have a desire to shape direction in which the youth grow. But that is to help young really... Brainwashing sounds malicious. They aren't trying to fuck you... (insert catholic pedofilia joke)

It's easy to think religion is malicious. Look at the spanish inquisition.... But the priests who decided to burn and kill all those people thought they were saving them from eternal burning in the flames of hell. It was bad, but the intention wasn't...

Now you might say a big part of a religion becoming succesful depends on it's ability to indoctrinate across generations. And so Catholicism is probably a powerful tool in directing the minds of parents and children... A brainwashing system.... But whatever man... If you can't think for your self and learn how to become your own master then, it doesn't matter if you "escape" religion. Your will and mind will still be controlled by another stronger mind belonging to someone else, you'll adapt and recite other people's ideas without understanding where they really come from and you'll to be thinking somebody elses thoughts. Lots of people spend alot of energy to tell you religion is bad, but most of them are just indoctrinated by something else. Out of the frying pan into the fire. At least catholicism gives you a solid moral system, so maybe you won't be too much of a negative influence in the world.

Think for yourself and you'll be fine wherever you are. And if you don't like it, you'll have the power to go somewhere else.

Good answer oneiro.

To counter my previous posts, I wanna say that I think Christianity, on a whole, is actually beautiful.


EDIT: Oh, yeah nice post too, LighrkVader.

I'm just jumping in here to say that I went to a Christian school (not Catholic) and yes it's brainwashing in a way. They definitely did their best to force some pseudoscience nonsense and grind that scripture down my throat everyday. I am best described as Atheist (mostly disbelieve the idea of a personal intelligent god because anything spiritual is all energy and nothing more) today and I'd never make any of my children go though any of that. Religion can indeed be a beautiful thing and I love various religious texts that I apply to my life but it gets dark when people use it to control others with guilt and shame.

Edit: And Slash it's very possible that if aliens visited ancient Earth they would think of them as gods. It would explain a lot of thing but we are lacking any real evidence. If you think about it every god in every religion actual is an alien. Alien could just be an updated word for god. Of course we don't even know if aliens exist for certain.

Well, the Annunaki are a type of "God" which is basically a highly evolved creature (not to be confused with the highest God, which is basically just everything in existence). They apparently live in the 4th dimension (on planet Niburu, aka Planet X).
Then you've got the good guys, like the Pleiadians who I think live in the 5th dimension and higher.
But these aliens, they have a lot of power. Hence the "God" nametag.

Sure, there's no definitive proof out there, only evidence that sorta implies such things.
But Earth is apparently in "quarantine" right now. The universe is watching us, waiting for us to reach the point when we're ready for direct contact again.
Many say that we're nearly there. I hope to live long enough to see it happen.

Of course I know it could all be bullshit. Some claim to know the actual truth, due to their clairvoyant abilities. But I don't have that. Not yet anyway.
I'm just open to the possibility that all these people could be telling the truth.

Sorry for taking over the thread with alien talk. xD

I don't think its that complicated, if your in environment taught by nuns half of the day..yes, it's inevitable one of the staff may push religion on you (in my case no one was really persistent about it) anyway had it worse at public elementary school ( texas, early 80's) the teachers all had their own wooden paddles!..dont see that anymore