Quote Originally Posted by pixiedustboo View Post
I do not believe the Bible preaches fear as the basis to being submissive to God. Especially in the New Testament.
Have you read the Bible or New Testament?

Quote Originally Posted by Jer 5:22 (NIV)
"Should you not fear me?" declares the Lord. "Should you not tremble in my presence?"
Quote Originally Posted by 2 Cor 5:11 (NIV)
Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men...
Quote Originally Posted by Ps 34:11 (NEB)
Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Quote Originally Posted by Ps 89:7 (NIV)
In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared.
Quote Originally Posted by Ps 76:4,7 (NIV)
You [O God] are resplendent with light... You alone are to be feared.
Quote Originally Posted by Isa 8:12-13 (NIV)
...Do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread.
Quote Originally Posted by Mat 10:28 (NIV), Jesus is speaking
"Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell."
Quote Originally Posted by Luke 12:4-5 (Jer)
"To you my friends I say: Do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. I will tell you whom to fear; fear him who, after he has killed, has the power to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him."
My personal favorite:

Quote Originally Posted by Heb 10:31 (KJV)
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
That's fun to shout at cunts who went to Catholic school as you're flogging them.

I'm pretty sure that all denominations and sects of the JCI family of religions use the fear of their God's wrath as the primary motivator in most things. Don't you even try and sugar-coat this: the primary argument for the JCI faith is that if you do not believe in and worship Him, you're going to be brutally tortured for all eternity.

Further, I think those of us on this forum are uniquely equipped to understand how it can be possible to be a wrathful, terrifying presence, who is simultaneously the definition of Love, to paraphrase Thomas Aquinas. Put another way; the JCI god is a mean fucking dom.