When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved.
In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
Fear attracts attack.
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
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