The need to desecrate religious faith

Yesterday, I saw my little daughter do some rituals and prayer. As it filled the hearts of others with joy, it made filled me with rage, anguish, disgust, fear and above all a sense of failure. The mere thought of my daughter having been indoctrinated at a young age into this callous cycle, was too much for me to accept without a fight.

What is wrong with a child praying? Why did that bother me, when I have seen plenty of others do crazier deeds?

As a child, I have been a victim of both organised faith and sexual abuse. I found the former more tormenting than the latter. It leaves lasting impacts and a scar to the next generation. I not only consider religious faith illogical but also immoral. To see my daughter absorb it was more than what I could take.

Indoctrinating a child at is very easy as compared to an adult. This is why most parents start making their children pray and do rituals even before the child realises the impact. It is a vicious move with a sole intention to corrupt a clear mind. The child cannot unlearn it unless it makes a conscious effort to do so. The society is filled with malice and pro-religious bias that it is extremely hard to do that. A child cannot muster a defence against the argument for religious faith. We cannot explain evolution or relativity to a 3-year-old. Religion has an easy solution there.

Indoctrinating a child with religious faith future proofs the stupid gene. By definition, it suppresses your critical faculties and makes you obey holy orders with no rationale. By pushing a child through that route, the malice lives for another generation. This is another generation of sectarian wars, fight aginst science, fundamentalism, extremism, deceit and corruption.

My fight against children being corrupted by religious faith is no different from wanting to side with the defenceless, the poor, the gullible against the evil forces of power. I don’t think I will be on the side of victory in this but I will fight till I die. This fight will be a healthy one, a fight of ideas nor ideologies, a fight for peace, a fight for unity, a fight for righteousness and a fight that doesn’t involve any arms but mere words.