Knowledge and reason are the two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of the truth.
There you go AB - fixed it for you. Basing thing on faith is terrifying as faith, by definition, is unevidenced as if you have evidence you don't need faith as you have knowledge.
Just for a moment try to demonstrate some empathic thinking, walk a mile in someone else shoes. Just imagine what nonsense, and indeed dangerous nonsense, this sounds to someone who does not believe that god even exists. If are aren't able to be empathic in that manner, try this - imaging if this statement came from a religious leader whose claimed god you don't believe exists and whose religious practices and moral beliefs who don' agree with.
Would you find that statement profound, or gullible and worrying.
Interesting point you raise PD - I can empathise with someone who is terrified of faith but different people are terrified of lots of different things. We can't really accommodate everyone's terrors. As a woman, the current transgender debate could make me very anxious, but being terrified is not very productive or useful, and it could also lead you to be labelled a bigot or phobic. Similarly, atheists will just have to learn to manage their terror of religious faith or they too run the risk of being seen as bigots.
For example I have been asked to sign an £850 contract (non-refundable except for exceptional circumstance) for my 17 year old daughter to attend a residential academic camp about 200 miles away from home over the summer. The camp policy docs say U18s will be sharing bedrooms - 2 to a room. They also say that for safeguarding reasons kids are not allowed to entertain each other in their bedrooms, only in communal areas. They also say sexual activity is not allowed and kids will be sent home if discovered engaging in explicit sexual activity. And then the policy docs say that in line with government legislation transgender kids will be placed in the boarding house that corresponds with their gender identity, and if the trans kid wants a single room they will attempt to accommodate this but cannot guarantee a single room.
So in theory I could be signing a contract to agree that my daughter will share a room with a trans girl. I therefore raised the issue with the camp director that their policy seems contradictory as there is no data to show a trans girl has less testosterone than any other biological male and that normal male teen behaviour is to become sexually aroused, get an erection and masturbate in their bedrooms and this would probably make my daughter uncomfortable if she became aware of it. I also pointed out the loss of privacy to my daughter and the risk of unwanted sexual advances or sexual harassment if the trans girl was attracted to girls, as many biological males are. I also queried what would happen if the trans girl was sexually attracted to my daughter and what if she welcomed the advances - would that not go against their policy of teens not being allowed to entertain each other in their bedrooms to prevent sexual activity - and would that not run the risk of teen pregnancy and transmission of STDs. The data shows unprotected lesbian sex carries a lower risk of STDs and no risk of pregnancy but in this case the trans girl is actually a boy so there would be the same risk of STDs and pregnancy as there is with unprotected heterosexual sex.
This is just one example, but there seem to be various irrational, self-contradictory unevidenced ideas that have nothing to do with religion that society seems to try to accommodate at various points in time that could be considered terrifying. Somehow we have to rub along and accommodate and come to a compromise.
No doubt a different unevidenced idea will soon come along to be the cause of the day. If we get to choose our own age based on our belief or how we self-identify, I can think of some tax pension loopholes that can be exploited.
