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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)