Any Christian Churches Who Don't Practice Fear Mongering Out There?

I grew up in Christian Science (which differs pretty significantly from all Christian sects) and one of the main premises is "Fear is an illusion". Another is "matter is unreal and temporal". When asked, "what is all this stuff then?" Mary Baker Eddy (founder of CS) considered it to be what she called "aggressive mental suggestion" or "animal magnetism" meaning, every thinking being plays with light and dark, but what really matters? Light (or Love or life) is something. Dark (or death, or fear) is the absence of something.



Have you ever known people that excuse themselves from doing things or experimenting or living their dreams because of "what if's?" What if I die? What if I get sick? What if I fail? What if I embarrass myself? Fear looks really real then, even though it is and always will be speculation.



Fear mongering is used to control. In all the CS church services I attended, fear was not sensationalized, it was outed as an illusion. Love was always promoted and pontificated upon in as many ways as possible, to get us to realize that's also how healing happens. Love of self, love of others and love of God culminates into a transcending of this material world, and all it takes is a moment of clarity to see thru it...that is, if you have a moment, and no doubt.

John Lennon's Last Words

I just watched the "John Lennon: Love is All You Need" Documentary on Biography channel. It's really easy to see why he was assassinated by listening to what he said during interviews in the final years of his life. It came to him, that all we have to do as a planet is Love each other, forget about the fear of violence and trust that it will work. It'll be hard, but it'll work...really...it will.



He noticed that people were moving past the old ways of being and believing and were ready for this change, but others were still seeing and repeating the past, not budging or attempting any kind of change at all, and unfortunately, many of them are in government positions of influence who are able to keep us here indefinitely...and many of them do...and that's crazy.



Change is scary.

It's also normal and inevitable.

Why not?

What have we got to lose?