User blog comment:Maslab/Spartan Brainwashing/@comment-59290-20091111013403

Sorry, Hunter Zealot, religious leaders only "brainwash" those who choose, willingly, to follow the faith. In effect, religious people, like myself and LOMI, choose to "brainwash" ourselves. In fact, many children who are raised in religious homes abandon their parent's belief systems. I have to disagree with your point on our presidents versus the Nazis and the Koreans, as well. Both of our successfully assassinated presidents, Lincoln and Kennedy, were immensely popular with the people because of their fair reputations (this is only the way they were perceived, not the way in which they acted out of the public eye). The people loved them because they were like the people, not because they obeyed released propaganda and were indoctrinated to consider their leaders as godlike. The SPARTANs are, no doubt, brainwashed. But neccessarily so. How would you like to have super soldiers who were your last hope going all "Munich" on you? It just wouldn't work.