Fear, Guilt, Shame, Self-Pity, etc. are unnecessary negative emotions, and are actually indulgences of the ego. The fear of God actually takes you farther away from God/enlightenment, folks!
Fear isn't necessary -- discernment is. You can see a bear right in front of you, and have no fear and be clear-headed about what to do. And if you're enlightened, you wouldn't even be afraid of dying, you would be radiating so much love that the bear wouldn't even be able to attack you in your presence. Hahaha, love the bear to disarm it!
It isn't that people on here don't like Christianity, as I believe all people here highly respect Jesus Christ and his Teachings in the New Testament, which are actually quite love-centered. They just don't like the religion itself, which in some cases is heavily based on the Old Testament, and which if you do your research on, you'll easily find that it's full of holes and errors and untruths and falsities. It's the Old Testament God that's fearful and judging, and that God doesn't exist -- it comes from visions from the lower astral realms (hells), and from the ego projecting anthropomorphic human defects onto God.
Christianity ought to mean following Christ's example, which will take you all the way up the Levels of Consciousness to Unconditional Love. But to make the mistake of equating the Old Testament God with the New Testament God ... well, it'll suck
