Cannot prove the god-thing exists. Cannot prove that someone gotten to age 900 without a medical aid, while the average life expectancy was just 35 years. Cannot prove a lot of wild irrational claims, while science already disproved all of it.
Yet the parent is willing to threaten his own child with eternal punishment and fire, that is very real to impressionable children. And not just once, but every day. That's emotional abuse, and quite a severe form too.
Who but a mentally unstable person will do something like that?
