>Why do you fear your God! It indicates that you are driven by negative ideas. Oh, never mind... we'll probably never agree.
The way the word is often used, I understand it not so much in the sense of being afraid, as the name seems to imply, but rather of having respect to God.
See also
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=god-fearing
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
