We're talking about christianity in the west, excluding the last 100 years.

It was knonwn for certain that ninety-nine point nine per cent of the human race were condemned to everlasting fire. Why? Either because they'd never heard of Jesus; or, if they had, because they couldn't believe sufficiently strongly that Jesus had delivered them from the fire. And the proof that they didn't believe sufficiently strongly was the empirical, observable fact that their souls were not at peace. Perfect faith is defined as something that produces perfect peace of mind. But perfect peace of mind is something that practically nobody possesses. Therefore practically everybody is predestined to eternal punishment.

Augustine was beatean by his schoolmaster and laughed at by his parents when he complained. Luther was systematically flogged not only by his teacher and father, but even by his loving mother. The world has been paying for the scars on his buttocks ever since.

Do to your children's bottoms what was done to yours, what your Heavenly Father has been doing to the collective bottom of humanity ever since the Fall: whip, whip, whip!