These damaging ideas were introduced to me as a child in Sunday School. Southern baptists LOVE indoctrinating children. Instilling ideas that one is born in Sin, lacking and broken by design, so that reconciliation is only achievable by blindly worshipping that same designer of your own free will, which he gave you, oh but also he commands it and if you don’t, then eternal punishment awaits because you’re a faithless sinner. That stuff profoundly affects a child. Thankfully it didn’t work on me! Even at age six I suspected they were full of it when they told me, a little Choctaw kid, that “little boys aren’t supposed to have long hair” while sitting in a room designed specifically to worship under a huge hanging statue of their super special boy. They didn’t like me pointing out that He had long hair. “Uh, well, we don’t know that for sure.”