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Originally Posted by Cherie

So it was his choice, it’s the same for many kids, mine did their confirmation at 15 but they chose to do it, neither go to church now and thats fine, they didn’t attend a catholic secondary school either and that was their choice also, the idea that children who are baptised are forever indoctrinated is a false assumption usually perpetrated by non christians

Thankfully in the modern world, the availability of information means that (probably most at this point) are not "indoctrinated"... But that doesn't mean it isn't an attempt to do so? I certainly don't assume that children raised in a religion are forever doomed to stick with it; my dad was raised strictly Catholic and is non-religious, and my wife was also Catholic schooled from age 5 to 16 and has (more or less) the same religious stance as me.