Childhood Indoctrination of Religion

There have and will continue to be arguments against religion and gods on this blogs. But I think the most powerful argument against gods is one that points out that children are born secular and would continue to remain secular if not for religious indoctrination.

Religious indoctrination must start at an early age before the person has had a chance to mature. They do not yet have the ability to process these things in which adults are telling them. To them, religious stories are just as likely to be real as a fairy tale; especially when a grown adult in insisting that these things do in fact exist.

Even if the child does in fact disagree with religious beliefs of the adult, what can they do about it? They are for at least the next decade or so financially and legally dependent on the parents

All this makes it very difficult for a child to understand that those adults who indoctrinate a child are not telling the truth. Even the most logical arguments against the existence of god are aimed at those who are adults, and thus have already gone through years of indoctrination. Logic alone does not undo the damage of indoctrination. Also, as the saying goes you can reason somebody out of something they were never reasoned into in the first place.