= Fear and Religion =
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''fear'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">of the Gods is the beginning of religion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-motives-of-devotion#p3</ref></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''Fear'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">of the gods arose from man's ignorance of God and his ignorance of the laws that govern the world. The idea of the divine in the form of judge, king exaggerates the importance of the sense of sin and thereby prolongs and increases the soul's </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''fear'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and self-distrust and weakness. The fear of god is useful only when the soul has not yet grown sufficiently to follow good for its own sake and needs an authority above it whose judgment it can </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''fear'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and found upon that </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''fear'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">its fidelity to virtue.</span>
= Courage =