>>>Why do you fear your God! It indicates that you are driven by negative ideas. Oh, never mind... we'll probably never agree.
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>>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.
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>>See also
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=god-fearing>
>There is a difference of doing what your father says, either because you fear him, or because you respect him. Fear is not the same as respect.
I know, the term may be badly named. But that is the way the word is often used.
>(Hmm, Brett Hobbs is not in the list of 'Forward a copy of this reply to these members'. Perhaps an issue for Michel Fournier.)
Probably he chose the option NOT to receive such copies. 'Tis a feature, not a bug.
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)
