Are Chritians brainwashed?

If you were to ask a Christian why they are Christian they would probobaly spout off some answer that they heard from church because they have more or less been programed to do it. In several studies it has been confirmed that many Christians have actually been brainwashed into believing what is told to them by their family and church. If someone is constantly told from birth thay they must believe in God or they will be punished eternally of course they will believe because they are too frightened to think otherwise. Eventually this becomes so natural to them that they it actully becomes imprinted into their mind so they cannot question it. This is how cults and kidnappers brainwash their victims. THey consistently tell them that if they do not believe them or do as they say then they will be punished until sub conscienously they cannot think against it.