The thing that gets me is that they could have gone the other way. How about Original Grace instead of Original Sin? How about telling kids they must be valuable because God loves them instead of they're valuable because God loves them?
There's no good reason for Christians not to tell their children they're kind and good and beautiful and deserve to be loved. A fair number of Christians do, so I don't buy that children being born worthless is a necessary part of their religion.
There's no good reason for Christians not to tell their children they're kind and good and beautiful and deserve to be loved. A fair number of Christians do, so I don't buy that children being born worthless is a necessary part of their religion.