Is religious indoctrination child abuse?

Is religious indoctrination child abuse?

Of course it's child abuse. Religious indoctrination can cause brain damage.

I was one of millions of victims of religious brainwashing. Ugly nuns repeatedly told us "Christ died for your sins" and "You must have faith" and "You're all going to hell" and "The Catholic Church is the one true religion."

I never did buy the hell bullshit. I threw out the Catholic Church bullshit at age 18. I wished I threw it out at age 8.

Unfortunately most victims never realize their brainwashers were insane. They will waste their entire pathetic lives being completely wrong about everything.

Wikipedia - Religion and children

Several authors have been critical of religious indoctrination of children, such as Nicolas Humphrey, Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins. Christopher Hitchens and Dawkins use the term child abuse to describe the harm that some religious upbringings inflict on children.

Dawkins states that he is angered by the labels "Muslim child" or "Catholic child". He asks how a young child can be considered intellectually mature enough to have such independent views on the cosmos and humanity’s place within it. By contrast, Dawkins points out, no reasonable person would speak of a "Marxist child" or a "Tory child." He suggests there is little controversy over such labeling because of the "weirdly privileged status of religion".