*waiting for moonbeam to weigh in*
OK, the subject is:
Jesus died for our sin. God knows best what's for us. These all sound like things one would say to make people feel not worthy.
So does religion really try to promote self-hate?
There is only one sin and it is the belief there is such a thing as sin and that one is therefore capable of being sinful. This is a form of self flagellation., a way to make one feel worthless, debased and unworthy of God. It is for this reason that Jesus came and died, to take from you your illusion of worthlessness.
But worthlessness runs very very deep and is not so easily expunged. That is why you have to die psychically to go to heaven, and why folk who actually know how worthless they feel, the meek, are those who can actually do it. When you truly feel how worthless you feel you have nothing to lose.
For the rest, any mention of sin is seen as an attack on the ego. Those who are pretending they don't feel worthless see any mention of sin as an attack on them. They think somebody is trying to make them unworthy, not seeing that's what they actually feel.
So there isn't much hope for the sickest, with or without religion. They will never look at themselves or know what they feel. They just point fingers and defend.
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