DA wrote:
You can't have it both ways. You can't tell a young child that they are sinners who need to beg for forgiveness, even though they've truly done nothing wrong, and then expect them to accept responsibility for their own actions. Heck they were already guilty.


A child brought up to believe that they were born in sin and made to confess to imagined sin, will easily adapt to the concept of evil hovering around them always. Such a person will need constant reassurance that they will reach Heaven/ Paradise for it really is hell for them on Earth. They may even feel that this gives them permission to kill, burn and wage war on the 'enemy' in the name of their god, because s/he is good, whilst their foes, and their god, are evil.