Religion

From age 6, I was subjected to a standard Presbyterian Sunday School education. It made every attempt to indoctrinate me into the religious beliefs of that denomination of Christianity, including predestination, one of the hallmarks of Presbyterianism. For almost 12 years, I absorbed that indoctrination.

Eventually, though, I began questioning it. As I learned more about things from other sources, including school and my own voracious reading, it became more and more difficult to integrate the myths of Christianity with what I was learning elsewhere. Being a curious sort of young person, I sought more and more information to help me work out the conflicts between mythology and the real world that was being described elsewhere.

Integration was eventually clearly impossible A choice had to be made. Either the mythology was correct or the information about reality was correct. It was a simple decision, really. I did rise above that indoctrination, and by the time I was 19, I was an atheist, and put aside all of that indoctrination.

Now that I am 73 years old, I have continued my education, both formally and as the autodidact that I turned out to be. Nothing has ever led me toward returning to the mythology I learned so well as a child. Indeed, everything I have learned has led me in the other direction.

So, you are correct. It is possible to learn one's way out of myth and indoctrination. I highly recommend doing so. It clarifies everything.