There was some study I remember that found that some people respond more strongly to fear stimuli and others to reward stimuli. Everyone responds to both, I'm talking about to which they responded the strongest. (Also, this was a predictor of a person being either conservative or progressive).
This is one of the genius things of modern (by which I mean the last 1500 years) religious indoctrination. It includes the stick AND the honey, so it covers both ends of this spectrum.
Personally I never feared hell, even when I was very young and very deeply a believer. It simply never struck me as realistically fearful. Part of me simply dismissed it, because I figured God was loving so the vast majority of people, sinners or no, had nothing to fear from it.
I notice a lot of modern believers are the same. Take CL forinstance, and she has zero fear of hell, even though she admits she cannot know who goes and who remains. She's such a believer in the kind version of God that the scary version holds little sway over her psyche.
This is one of the genius things of modern (by which I mean the last 1500 years) religious indoctrination. It includes the stick AND the honey, so it covers both ends of this spectrum.
Personally I never feared hell, even when I was very young and very deeply a believer. It simply never struck me as realistically fearful. Part of me simply dismissed it, because I figured God was loving so the vast majority of people, sinners or no, had nothing to fear from it.
I notice a lot of modern believers are the same. Take CL forinstance, and she has zero fear of hell, even though she admits she cannot know who goes and who remains. She's such a believer in the kind version of God that the scary version holds little sway over her psyche.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
