The biggest problem imo with organized religion

[bellatrys]

is that it validates the very human impulse to think that we can "make up" for things - rewrite the past, undo what we have done, magic away the reality with something else - that we can fix our misdeeds and harms done by harming ourselves in some way.

And we can't. We really can't.

It's not that religions create this idea: as I stated above, it'

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Official Church teachings

[anonymous]

I see that you say various Christian religions teach these things, but could you show me in the official teachings of a mainline Christian religion where these unfortunate teachings are taught? I expect that fringe elements in any church might say such things, but I want to see where it is officially taught.

JLB