[Zechariah_8_13]

Because it keeps the followers in line. If a person believes that they are bad and a religion offers a way of making the person less bad, the leaders of the religion have a way to control the minions.

Man, you're clueless.

[JeffAtlanta]

Man, you're clueless.

So you are saying that no religion has ever told their followers that they are "bad" so they could be controlled and manipulated?

How do you think cults get so much power over their members? It's because the followers believe that the religion has the "answer" to their salvation.