a logical question for theists

[Violet]

why do you have to fear and love god?

Logical question for theists = postulating no question regarding logic...?

Theists don't have to fear and love god to be theists.

here is a case and a sad one. a woman loves her abusive
husband she loves him and yet is afraid of him. that is what
religion is like fear and love the abusive creator. why should
you love someone or some being that only creates misery and
forgive him. let that sink in before you do your god is great posts
and think about it.

You seem to misconstrue 'abusive' relationships as 'inherently only negative' relationships... oftentimes there are many 'redeemable' qualities about an abusive person, and there are many reasons where one might have found themselves loving them.

That doesn't affect one's fear of the abuse, which creates the scenario of entrapment where most of the time the abused does not want to leave, and the few times when they think they want to, they can backpedal over all the 'wonderful' things they're getting out of the relationship.

The thought of leaving an abusive relationship creates a tremendous amount of guilt, which anchors people far past the point where a noninvested opinion would have removed them. Hope further anchors, after all, "maybe it'll get better".

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But just so easily can one equally fear a person who has done them *no* wrongs, based on what *could* *potentially* *in the future* be done to them by said person, who has only ever been benevolent to them. This 'fear' you speak of in the religious sense? It is how a god had to get his bronze age believers to respect him, as such people respect only fear.

It is not a component that many would argue still applies in the modern day. Though, others might say that, based on all the doubters, a good showing of awe-inspiring supernatural terrorism might be in order.

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But nobody is afraid of knifes

If I can be sexually into slitting someone open with a knife, their blood cascading in tremendously spiraling spurts from their neck... then likewise can I pale bloodless in fear of someone slitting me open with a knife, my blood painting the world before my darkening eyes.

... Some people can be very very afraid of knives. Particularly, those with reason to respect them.