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Would the one feature of Christianity that invalidates the religion is that is based in fear and it uses fear to control people and it tries to instill fear in children so as to capture them early?
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∙ 11y ago
Christianity itself does not try to instill fear in us. We instill that fear in ourselves. Countless times in The Bible the phrase "Fear not","Do not be afraid", and "Do not fear" (along with countless other variations of these phrases; all with the same message to not fear God.) We live in such a science-based society that hearing stories of people rising from the dead, parting waters, etc. and also the basic idea that there is an all-powerful being (more powerful than ourselves) can scare us, because they do not fit in to what our society says is possible. So bascially, it is not the religion that instills fear-quite the contrary, it provides us with hope that we will go somewhere amazing after we die instead of just everything turning to black-it is ourselves that instill the fear.
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∙ 7y agoMost religions, not just Christianity, have it as a base premise that its followers should do it their way or be tormented forever in any of several variations of hell. Add to this the staff that religions tend to work with this fear of eternal suffering, which only they can help you avoid, to feather their own nests. Then the parents see how effective this approach is and use it as a stick to control their children.
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