Christianity and its effect on self-worth

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If your assessment is correct, then apparently humans are evil, as from an atheist perspective humans must have invented religion.

Yet, OP criticizes Christianity for teaching that people are evil.

Again, it's about taking the bible or any holy book literally. The bible, since this is the book I've actually read, is filled with ancient myths and sagas to make the Hebrew people look good. But what was morally OK 3000 years ago, isn't OK by todays standards. So, no, people aren't evil in themselves. We just evolved to a higher standard than what the people writing the bible knew at their time. The book however didn't evolve and still flaunts bronze age behavioral code of a certain region.