The LDS Church engages in an intense, overt, and lifelong program of youth indoctrination, one that finds its apex in the full-time missionary service expected of young men and women. From the earliest stages of childhood, religious instruction is relentless and deliberately structured to shape thought, belief, and loyalty. This is no accidental byproduct of faith; it is a carefully engineered system of education, reinforced through home, church, and peer environments, designed to leave little room for independent spiritual exploration.

LDS leadership fully understands—and applies—the enduring wisdom of the biblical maxim:

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
—Proverbs 22:6 (AKJV)

By embedding doctrine, culture, and a sense of divine duty into children from their earliest memories, the institution virtually guarantees that these teachings remain deeply rooted into adulthood.