• Fear Moves Us

  Contributed by Robert Clark on Jun 19, 2009 (message contributor)

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  Tags:  Fear And Worry

  Denomination: Methodist

FEAR MOVES US

Fear is used by those with a platform to move us in the direction they desire. Fear sells (magazines, newspapers, TV ratings/ads...). Fear wins political contests. Fear is used by parents. And all too often fear is used by the church.

Illustration:

Print articles add up to $543M. U.S. population only 270M.

Church – "If you do this or that you will go to Hell, or God is watching you! You better act like we tell you."