2007-07-03 03:40:30 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
FEAR.... No question about it.
- Fear of death, dying, our own mortality. (Thanatophobia)
- Fear of hell, eternal damnation. (Stygiophobia)
- Fear of God, God's wrath, divine retribution.
- Fear of being ostracized by the community of believers.
- Fear of being alone in the universe.
- Fear that life has no meaning. That life really is absurd and random.
- Fear of sacrificing "magical thinking", Fear of becoming an adult, moving from childlike wonder to adulthood.
- Fear of new ideas/concepts: (Phronemophobia-Thinking, Ideophobia-Ideas, Epistemophobia-Knowledge)
Non-primary, secondary "tools":
• Religious experience or emotion, Spiritual and psychological benefits:
• Supernatural connection
• Belief in Afterlife
• Best Working Model
• Moral framework
• Majesty and tradition
• Community and culture
• Practical benefits: hospitals, schools, charities, feeding homeless
2007-07-03 23:26:03 · answer #1 · answered by HawaiianBrian 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fear, surprise and an undying loyalty to the pope....
um, sorry, bet you weren't expecting that, hun.
It's the Spanish repitition!
by the way- the big one is manipulation of lonliness and appeal to intellect "We know YOU see what's going wrong with the world today, don't YOU want to be a part of other people who SEE what's going wrong with the world?
(They don't like it when you point out Christianity's part of the PROBLEM)
2007-07-03 10:48:30 · answer #2 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grim Jack
2007-07-04 05:33:11 · answer #3 · answered by martinmm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guilt and fear and the only tools conservative christians use.
2007-07-03 10:54:03 · answer #4 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fear and indoctrination. I have been attempting to rid myself of my programming for about three and a half years now, and I still find myself thinking in their terms inadvertently. It's hard to do, as I'm finding out.
Blessed be.
2007-07-03 10:52:27 · answer #5 · answered by angafeabeta 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The tools I use are my personal testimony about who I was before Christ, how I met Christ, and what He has done with me since.
I also use Scripture to show God's holy requirements, how we as people consistently fall short of those requirements, and how He sent His Son Jesus to pay our debt for falling short of those requirements.
2007-07-03 10:48:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
For Evangelical Christians- it's plain and simply, brainwashing at a young age. You can see exactly the methods they 'proudly' use in the documentary movie "Jesus Camp".
Certainly one of the scariest movies I've ever seen.
2007-07-03 10:45:10 · answer #7 · answered by Morey000 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i use no " tools"
if you want to become christian fine...if you wanna hear why i became christian fine...
in the end..no matter what i may say it would ultimately be up to you to change...NOT me.
dont lump all of us in the same category. some of us know we cannot force u to convert.
2007-07-03 10:43:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I serve God because I love him.
I also appreciate his ways in dealing with those who hurt others.
What you do to others God will do to you.
God is perfect and is no respecter of persons and I like that also.
I stay with him because he is the only one who is true.
I also serve him because he always blesses my kids.
2007-07-03 10:45:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are no "tools", there's just the gospel. We can't convert people, it's their choice. Once a person accepts Christ it's still their choice to walk with him or walk away.
2007-07-03 10:44:10 · answer #10 · answered by Machaira 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋