I am almost done with a book called [1] Embraced By The Light which is about a woman’s amazing near-death experience. A person who studied 1,000 near-death experiences wrote that it was the “most profound and complete” that she had ever come across, so I bought the book.

The author claimed to have met God after she died and one of the things she learned was that fear was Satan’s greatest tool. She saw how men and women in authority had become prey to negative energy and had taught belief in God through fear. “Because of their own fears, they were using fear to control others.” I know growing up Catholic, I remember the fear. God was supposed to be vengeful. The term “wrath of God” was used occasionally. So I am to live my life according to the book, or I will be punished for all of eternity.

Now I have seen fear based control in other circumstances. Many cultures live this way and it’s normal. Dictators rule this way. The tradition male role often includes fear and intimidation. Some people train animals like dogs in this way. Beat the dog if it poops on the carpet so it won’t do it again. Smack the wife if she doesn’t do something right and she’ll learn her lesson.

It seems the more I learn about myself, the less I am prone to violence. I heard that violence is the voice of the inarticulate which makes sense. So why would many religions teach in this matter? Why would God rule with fear? It doesn’t make sense to me for a fully enlightened being to act in this manner. Fear seems to oppress people. According to this book, fear prevents us from really loving God. It is the opposite of love. “Since I feared God, I could not truly love him, and in not loving him, I couldn’t love myself or others purely.” This makes sense to me.

We all have fears, and we probably all have people and things we fear. So I checked the search engines to see what fears people were investigating. Below are all the searches that include the word fear. These terms are searched a total of 7,000 times a day on one of the major search engines:

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