What would be the one big lesson we would learn about religion - in all it's many currently existing varieties - if society were to deeply contemplate the sobering reality that the survival of religion is TOTALLY reliant on the indoctrination of gullible young children?
What does it say about the robustness of any religion belief system, that it's very survival depends 100% on the indoctrination of young impressionable minds, before they can begin to think for themselves?
If - using a thought experiment - we were to isolate every child from all religion until they were old enough to make up their own minds, then the emergent adult minds would scrutinise the astonishing claims put before them by each religious brand and reject them all as utterly primitive baloney. Religion would be as good as extinct within three generations.
What does it say about the reliability of any religious dogma, that it relies purely on it's adherents taking their child-like beliefs into adulthood? What does it say about all the planks in their platform?
It says a lot.
Acknowledgements to the unknown cartoonist.