There is some brainwashing in most large religious organizations, most governments, most corporate businesses, most schools and most large organizations of all kinds.

If that's the only part you can focus on, though, Jim, it seems to me you're determined to see only the bad part in things. It's the "glass is totally empty" point of view you appear to be espousing when it comes to religion.

Have you ever studied the positive philosophical concepts which are the driving force and main origin of all the great religions? Concepts such as...

- moderation in most things is a healthy practice
- non-violence improves human relations
- generosity is more beneficial than greed
- love casts out fear
- truthfullness is more beneficial than lying
- you should not take things that don't belong to you
- you should share with others
- best to respect others and then they will probably respect you
- anger consumes the vessel that contains it
- bitterness is an unproductive emotion
- your addictions lead you further into alienation
- peace is found within rather than by accumulating possessions
- you should treat others with kindness, not cruelty or disregard
- you can't judge anyone until you have experienced what he has
- all people have intrinsic worth, even if they're different from you
- we are all of one human family
- all life is sacred in its own way

Etc...

You should try studying those things. Study yoga or Buddhism or Taoism...(there's no God being in those at all). Focus on something good for a change rather than just on the various bad things that have been done here and there by various people because they chose to misuse a religion for their own immediate gain.

Let's see if you are capable of singing a tune which has more in it than only a single note...