(March 17, 2019 at 2:20 pm)Catharsis Wrote:Yes people use fear to control other people and have been doing it for centuries, across all areas of life, seem very human. I don't think anyone was really surprised by that at all.(March 17, 2019 at 2:18 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: God isn't a sadistic monster that torture live being for eternity. That's not a God, that's a Monster made to scare people in to submission. Nobody will torture you forever.
Are you saying people try to gain control of other people by claiming God will punish them otherwise when they don't?
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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