re: #224 Dopamine Fish

I’m sure you know it’s just an antiquated (and often used in English Bible translations) phrase. I do not literally “fear God”; while I believe he is all-powerful, the God I worship is also not the kind of God who would use that power to hurt people. (Discussions about the problem of suffering are beside this point.)

It’s a phrase that I usually hear from right-wing Christians that seem to have had religion used on them to make them afraid. It wasn’t something I heard growing up as a Catholic.