Christianity and its effect on self-worth

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Christianity teaches that everybody is equally worthless, but everybody is valued by Jesus. That's somewhat positive psychologically IMO.

Quite the contrary. I teaches people to tow the line. And let's make one thing clear, we're basically talking about the church according to Paul, since Paul's teachings are the base on which christianity is really founded.

And Paul makes it known, that god put everyone in their place. He also teaches that slaves are to obey their masters, even if they are cruel. That was good enough for the Romans, since it wasn't encouraging equality or rebellion in some way and it was good enough for Luther, who, to save his own sorry hide, condemned the peasants rising up against the princes.