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Question 72

As an atheist, what is your deepest fear?

I fear the good intentions of my government. (Nathan Hartshorn #344)

Little things with sharp fangs. Like spiders and such bugs. Even when they're dead, they still creep me out. (The Deadly Nightshade #119)

Winding up in hell, surrounded by a roomful of blathering holier-than-thou (but weren't) fundies, without an a.a. member in sight to talk to :-)

Seriously, as an atheist, the only fear I have is the rising fanaticism and intolerance displayed by the religious in various countries around the world. (Keith Brannen #713)

Probably suffering through cancer or something worse. (Mike Colby #1375)

As an atheist my deepest fear is not being allowed to be an atheist. I'm stubborn enough to be one anyway, though. I spent years, as a Christian, being mortally terrified of thinking anything, and going back to that would be the worst thing that could ever happen to me. (Neko)

Pain.

Both to myself and others.

Stupidity. Ignorance. Hatred. Racism. I fear it enough to try to fight it. (Ichimusai #769)

Mediocrity. (Jason P.)

That the key to immortality will be discovered the day after I die.

More practically, I fear becoming a mental vegetable and having my body live on as a burden to those who love me. The idea of "me" not really being "me" anymore... very scary. Almost like "Invasion of the Body Snatcher". (Bill Thacker #1363)

That the next time I get carted off to hospital with an oxygen mask on my face, they let the god-botherers in to plague my final moments. (Diem Marshall #1459)

What does this mean? I have to chop up my identity and figure out which fear goes where? Well, okay: my deepest fears, by Dianna
As a mother, harm to one of my children.
As a wife, loss of my husband.
As a writer, losing all bodily functions except that of my right big toe.
As a human, other humans.
As a woman, death at the hands of a rapist/murderer.
As a rationalist, alzheimers.
As an atheist? A country run by fundamentalists.
As a test subject, apparent stupidity. (Catsapah)

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