The Fear of Being a Christian Permeates Your Life

Your identity is a very specific, peculiar, unique thing to you. Don't make the mistake of thinking that everyone's identity is basically the same. People have enormously different identities. So someone who identifies is being christian is going to have a very different set of fears and self control mechanisms for his survival as a christian than someone who identifies as an atheist,. or as a materialist scientist, or as an agnostic, or as a hindu, oras a moslem. And so what the fear is doing is not just keeping your ass physically alive. The fear is maintaining your identity.