I always wonder why so many folks think god/divinity wants them to be in fear, like being god-fearing is such a great and necessary thing. i mean.... what kind of sense does that make? especially when many of them are nominally followers of a guy who preached love and forgiveness? I'm not a follower but I have read the gospels; makes me wonder if they have
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@CaptHarpo I think of that word more as "respect" and I also am of the opinion that the writers - men - imposed their own self-serving psychoses on how they wrote down stuff so that, what we attribute to "god" through their presentation really is more a reflection of them, not that god. Even Jesus mentioned god in feminine ways and they got/get downplayed by writers/preachers who presented through their own lenses of toxic masculinity.