Posted January 23, 2014
timppu: Is religion really the only thing keeping you from robbing, raping and murdering others? So you kinda have that kind of urges inside you, but you deny your urges because you fear of divine retribution?
MaximumBunny: I've actually been told by a fundamentalist pastor, one of those "I'm your friend and respect you but you're wrong about everything and I will convert you eventually" types (full creationist and the works), that if it wasn't for 'God' that's exactly what he would be doing. And this person is teaching people what is good and what is not using his own interpretation of a religious text? Scary. Fundamentalism teaches many small, dangerous ideas like that. I think it originally started as a fear of losing faith/members though. "If you leave US you will become like THEM". That would make sense as a tool to maintain converts and put the (wrong) "fear" into them. But you'll hardly find many Christians that understand what "the fear of the LORD" actually means.