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If I understand your question, I am not afraid.

Let your God strike me down. I think he is afraid of me. Come on, do it!
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Nope, not afraid, truly.
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I do not fear god.

Largely that's because i realize that he's imaginary. If he were real, then we would all have much to fear. He is depicted as a petty, vindictive, spiteful, hateful spoiled monster. And it is a very good thing for everything that lives that he doesn't exist.
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Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?

Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?

Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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God is not to be feared. God is a loving God. I do not fear God.

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First tell me what do YOU mean by god ?
“Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;
Life and these lips have long been separated:
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
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No, but I'm not afraid of the Easter Bunny either.
Gods and spirits are parasitic--Pascal Boyer

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oblivion wrote:No, but I'm not afraid of the Easter Bunny either.
You should be

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I actually am humbled by God than I am afraid of God.
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Dexter wrote:
oblivion wrote:No, but I'm not afraid of the Easter Bunny either.
You should be

Okay, so I could be wrong there. Can I change that to the tooth fairy then??
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No. Keaton always said, "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him." Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze. :D
"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” Stephen King
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