Religious indoctrination has to be the greatest injustice done to any soul to ever breathe on this earth not because there is something inherently wrong in religion any more than other replaceable ideologies but because it snatches away the freedom of a person that God has trusted every human being with.
Any religion essentially teaches us to ponder over the universe and look for answers on our own. And a dogmatic approach towards religion and God inhibits our ability to appreciate the concept of God in the truest sense. To wrest our power and somehow limit that freedom is a great disservice to our own the very idea of God.
The greatest danger in such an approach is that the person loses his own identity and he pins his whole self on the indoctrinated concept and devotes his whole life to something which he never chose for himself.
And conversely, a person who thinks for himself is not only comfortable in his own deductions is more content. He develops a resistance to take attacks on an ideology personally as he is not defined by it.
I personally believe in the abstract concept of God in a way inspired by Einstien's understanding of God- The entity which made the universe comprehensible through simple and beautiful mathematical truths.
Again I can't force anyone to see it all the same because our individual experience with truth, which is famously depicted by the five blind men and an elephant story, is different. And that's the beauty of free-will.
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