i've noticed, a lot of people, mostly atheists, believe that christians are brainwashed by the christian doctrine. do atheists find the chistian doctrine so absurd, that only by brainwashing someone can believe in it? what if atheistic ideas are brainwashing humans? suppose atheism becomes the dominant norm in a society. will we say then that atheism brainwashes the mind of people, and the skeptic ones will be the christians?
I wouldnt call it brainwashed. Historically, any tradition religion with a strong history will have some political and cultural influence in a persons beliefs as a group. There is a term for it that implies the majority influences people to jump the bridge together.
As a group and historically, I find christianity very distasteful and very very very distasteful in how it treats others (rather than treated. Sermons literally put down catholics (experience), catholics picketing street ways to stop abortion (crying wolve basically). I have issues with the religion as a political force not a spiritual one. People seem to do well individually, but in groups not so much.
Atheism cant have to do with brainwash. Thats all christian (and abrahamic, say muslim) views. When majority of the people of the world is religious, they act in groups, people opposed to conformity used to be killed. Now, we are being shunned.
If you want to put it techniqually, minorities are seens as brainwashed, missing something, dont know god, etc. Its not specific to atheist just if the pope says yes, We say yes. If god says yes, We says.
Yet individually, its harder without being a influenced by ones cultural upbringing to see how much decision affect people outside your group moreso than help thousands inside.