I feel like this thread is calling us stupid too..
I think this thread speaks many things, but not stupidity.
Children are products of their environment. This includes - more than anything - the environment built by the parents. In my opinion, there is no difference between the child raised in a family of white supremacist or a family of Witnesses.
In the home of the white supremacist, the child is taught all people who are not like him/her are bad, and god does not love them, and the child is taught he/she is the true Christian.
In the home of the Witness parents, the child is taught all people who are not witnesses (like him/her) are bad, and god does not love them, and the child is taught he/she is the true Christian.
The white supremacist child cannot play with the black/gray/blue child down the street.
The Witness Child cannot play with any child in the neighborhood who is NOT a witness.
A child?s brain is like software. He/she absorbs and believes whatever the parents teach to the child. Now multiply that teaching by one thousand, with other family members, the organization literature, mind training at least three times a week, twelve times a month!
The child has no chance until he/she grows old enough to think for himself/herself, and start asking questions. By this time the child has been well programmed.
I know? I was there.
Bryan