Religions are not the real causes are just a motive for those who are inferiors and feeling conceitedly.The need to feel and join a group like I.S.I.S comes from xenophobia, insecurity, fear, and complexity. All these feelings are fought by education.
The diffetence between education and brainwashing is simply whether you agree with the content or not.
Bah.
The difference between education and brainwashing can be simply found by looking at the definitions of the words.
To be more thorough, look at the reference for each in wikipedia.
I checked it out. One of the key components of brainwashing is that it introduces "unwanted" thoughts into the subject. So if the thoughts are wanted, I guess it wouldn't be brainwashing then would it? What would you call it in such a case? Programming, perhaps?
That's all you got from checking it out? Well, I guess a medieval mindset may be slow to comprehend modern concepts. At least you are trying.
Programming people to do what a ruler wants has been important for thousands of years. Whatever warlord did the best job of figuring that out was likely to win wars. Particularly important was ways of convincing men to kill themselves for The Cause. Whatever the Cause was would be figured out according to the King's wishes at the moment.
Brainwashing as a science is a 20th century phenomena, though.
Comforting to see you continue to resort to insults rather than actually confront the issues. Your denigration of medieval times is understandable since you are probably ethnically European. I am too, so I know my anceators had a hard time of it in Europe in the middle ages, due in no.small part to poor hygiene, alcoholism, and extreme ignorance in fields like medicine, until medical textbooks written by Muslims helped Europe to come out of this difficult phase. I can understand why you would be acting out an inferioritt complex based in that hereditary shame. As a European Muslim, I've moved beyond this and I invite you to do so as well.
If you look a little deeper into history, particularly the history of ideas, you will find all modern ideas have antecedents. For example, people have been using killing of non combatants to achieve political aims in psychological warfare for millenia, but only recently has the term 'terrorism' been coined.
In fact, the key to understanding most modern ideas on a fundamental level is to understand their historical context.
To reduce armed struggle to mere hedonism or self interest on the part of autocrats is correct in some circumstances, but this overlooks the numerous popular and ideologically motivated liberation struggles in history.
For example, we can better understand secularism if we understand the background of the wars of the Reformation in Europe, and how Holland, by reclaiming land from the ocean, was able to establish a state ruled by a merchant oligarchy outside of the rigid and established order of the traditional aristocracy. This necessitated a theological alternative to the Catholic orthodoxy, since the doctrine, as you pointed out, necessitated blind service to the elite which ultimately was not in the rational best self interest of many subjects. Puritanism harnessed the power of religious belief, but by claiming a more authentic application of Holy scripture, it simultaneously provided the ideological backdrop for a popular uprising against the church- why do think heresy was punished so severely?
Secularism was viewed as a way to transcend the cycles of religious violence, but nearly all of its core principle were drawn from Christianity, and these principles came to govern the nature of state and government, and the institutional landscape of the modern state grew largely out of a (very violent) process of compromise between the church, the merchant class, and the aristocracy, by which more power and status was given to the merchant and artisan classes.
As such, principles such as the European variant of human rights, which form the orthox doctrine, as it were, of modern secularism, are deeply rooted in Christian theology.
What I am trying to say, is that one must understand the medieval mindset in order to truly understand modern ideas.
Prisons are a mind control technology.
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