I have been thinking about how culture and religion conditions us since childhood. Parents play a huge role in this. I being a young parent too want to pass on my religion to my kids - hence I read them stories , history etc - in an attempt that they can follow the same culture and religion as I do. But at the same time I do recognize that this is all conditioning and takes us away from the real essence of life - because we get so entrapped in dogma. I argue with myself that this conditioning is necessary and is similar to teaching a kid - abc alphabets. Eventually when they grow up they will understand the language and the use of learning alphabets. But cultural and religious conditioning becomes dogma and is harder to break from. Yuval Harari in his books Homo Sapiens touched a bit on this part. I am looking for more books/talks/articles on the same topic that can provide some more food for thought. Please share.
