God fearing???

I have a problem with the term God fearing. It doesn't sound right and people are using it to describe a person that is deeply religious?

I don't buy in the concept that a deity should be someone you fear. Did the Catholic Church promote this way of thinking? I would think so. They, of all people, want the sheep just to follow their ideologies blindly, discouraging questions and doubts.

 God respecting would be a better term. I would like to think that people follow whoever they worship because they respect him rather than because of fear.


I sometimes say that religion is something we can perhaps do without. What we cannot do without are the basic spiritual qualities. - Dalai Lama