9 ways toxic religion damages children and sabotages their relationship with spirituality, themselves, others and life:

1. Telling children they are born into this world as sinners, intrinsically bad, and repulsive to God.

2. Teaching children that their sinfulness is to blame for God killing his only child.

3. Convincing children there is nothing good inside them and cannot trust their thoughts and feelings.

4. Using fear and shame to bind children to certain beliefs or practices related to God.

5. Instructing children that God satisfies his holiness by sending the majority of humankind to eternal conscious torment in Hell.

6. Condoning to children a dehumanizing and objectifying view of people deemed as "non-believers."

7. Implying that asking questions, critical thinking, nonconformity and the use of reason is a sign of carnality.

8. Enforcement of "purity culture", which sabotages the healthy and responsible development of sexuality and relationships.

9. Persuading children that proper religious devotion prevents mental health struggles and seeking professional help a lack of faith.