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Originally Posted by August
Guilt and fear of damnation can be powerful motivators and priests are very good at putting the arm on their parishioners. I can't see the RC or other secular charity having the same coercive power.
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Which is a really sad thing - because no one should be acting out of "fear" - but rather love. Something that many a parish leader could learn.
Its like the sermon that says you better get saved because if you don't you will burn in torment for all eternity. Not only is such a message theologically incorrect, it seeks to motive from a negative. No conversion done through fear lasts.