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.
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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.
Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.
Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it.
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.
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