> [!infobox] <s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 1 topic, 8 evergreens</em></s> #### [[Religious concepts are often too powerful for a child's mind]] [[Fear of hell is baked into Christianity for vulnerable believers]], if it is instilled from a young age that your eternal fate is at stake. %% #TO/TEND/WEED %% ^[[[Children will not question what is modeled for them unless they are taught to]]] [[Christianity]] teaches that the feelings of an omnipotent god are more important than yours, and you must submit yourself to this god in order to avoid hell. [[Negative influences impact us more than positive influences]] and especially as children this will stick with us: [[We carry our childhood wounds into adulthood]] [[Parents need to model the ability to deal with emotion to their children]], but religious [[parents]] repeatedly teach their children that all of their problems can be solved in [[faith]]. Because Christians have always had such a simple and obvious choice to avoid this damnation, ^[[[Worldviews should not make life seem easy and simple]]] [[Christians struggle to feel empathy because they must believe that non-christians are going to hell]] #TO/TEND/GRAFT - [[The brain is powerful enough to create supernatural experiences]] - [[Humans are primarily irrational, illogical, emotional beings]] - [[We carry our childhood wounds into adulthood]] - [[Children make wide assumptions about the world]] - [[Parents need to model the ability to deal with emotion to their children]] - [[Trans children will repress their dysphoria if they have been effectively taught it is unacceptable]] - [[Human's will find explanations for inexplainable things]] - [[Worldviews should not make life seem easy and simple]] > ![[10_Sources/books - You and Your Gender Identity#183352903q]] ### <hr class="footnote"/> **Status**:: #EVER/SAPLING *edited 7:35 AM - July 08, 2022* **Topics**:: [[religious trauma]], [[Evangelicalism]], [[Christianity]], [[childhood]], [[human behavior]]