That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.