some light reading about religious indoctrination; I am sure the curious can do their own internet search (I don't believe in spoon feeding either)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201810/how-religious-fundamentalism-hijacks-the-brain

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-28537149

https://www.praxis-psychologie-berlin.de/en/religion-and-childhood-trauma-faith-and-fear/