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Yeah, growing up protestant in the US, here's what I was taught:
Humanity is so intrinsically vile that an eternity of torture in Hell is what every one of us deserves. God chose to forgive us (but we don't deserve it, so we'd better be grateful), and that's why you'd better believe in God (because you can't genuinely accept that forgiveness and will be forever tortured in Hell if you don't). Nothing else you do can make you any less repulsive ("all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags") and an idle stray thought about a thing is exactly as bad as doing that thing ("whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart").
I won't say my Christian upbringing is entirely or even mostly responsible for my life-long struggles with self-hatred, but it certainly didn't help.