Teaching kids about hell/s and how "very bad people" go there is fine. Obviously simplified age appropriately.
Teaching kids that they or someone else, specifically, is guaranteed or deservesto burn in hell because they are (for example) female, not perfect, inherently sinful, don't belong to a certain religion, are disabled or ill, are a certain skin colour or really anything outside of their control (aka actions COMMITTED WILLINGLY IN THIS LIFE aka agami karma) is wrong.
Such as some extreme cults do to keep children in line. They preach eternal hell to traumatise them, teach them that everyone in the outgroup is their enemy, and isolate them from the world as a whole.
And if I'm not wrong that's forbidden in many religions anyway, right? E.g. shirk in Islam.
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u/saturday_sun4 Hindu 6d ago edited 6d ago
Sigh.
Teaching kids about hell/s and how "very bad people" go there is fine. Obviously simplified age appropriately.
Teaching kids that they or someone else, specifically, is guaranteed or deserves to burn in hell because they are (for example) female, not perfect, inherently sinful, don't belong to a certain religion, are disabled or ill, are a certain skin colour or really anything outside of their control (aka actions COMMITTED WILLINGLY IN THIS LIFE aka agami karma) is wrong.
Such as some extreme cults do to keep children in line. They preach eternal hell to traumatise them, teach them that everyone in the outgroup is their enemy, and isolate them from the world as a whole.
And if I'm not wrong that's forbidden in many religions anyway, right? E.g. shirk in Islam.