Telling children that they are going to hell is abusive?

[ColdComfort]

Well, you could just exclude that incongruous detail from magic books true or plausible portion.  

As if people ever bullshitted anyone else about some fairies.  Thing is, is that most of the people with issues like you mention actually worship the magic book, not the god it allegedly describes.

So does this mean that when Christians tell their own children that they are going to hell is also abusive?

If you mean parents, or anyone else, telling children there is a heaven and a hell then of course it is not abusive. Telling anyone the truth is not abusive. If you mean parents, or anyone else, telling a child, or anyone else, they personally are going to hell then they are simply putting themselves in place of God. Only He would know and only He is the judge.

So then why do you think people find this incident offensive?

You could ask them. I got to the point where the guy said 'you will go to hell'. To repeat myself a bit:  1) how does he know?  and 2) he presumes to put himself in the place of God.

I'm not fond of guys with megaphones preaching their version of Christianity. A few months ago there were two of them at the main intersection of the city I live in. One of them didn't take kindly when I refused his pamphlet. A sneer towards another lost soul. So I told them I was Catholic and they were going to hell unless they started receiving the sacraments. I had no right to say so but you know... bad day... that kind of thing. 

I think Islam is a false religion. It's kind of a Christian heresy which is why Dante put Mohammed in hell suffering being split from head to toe, then healed, then split again. Forever. Protestants are schismatics and often heretics. It's a simple act of charity to tell someone the truth. Jesus, and the Church He founded, gives us very serious warning of hell.

God is Love but Love is not God.