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Why Do So Many People Fear God?
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Item Title Why Do So Many People Fear God?
Guest Van den Haag, Ernest
Guest Wakefield, Dan
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedJuly 11, 1995
Description

The phrase "fear God" in the title does not mean as in, say, Isaiah 6, but rather "fear to talk about God in public." A genial session exploring why Americans are so uncomfortable talking about their Maker. DW: "I've had the feeling that people who know now that I've gone back to church, that I've reclaimed my faith and so on, that they're afraid that I'm going to try to convert them ... And I have to suspect that behind that fear is the fear of the 'hound of Heaven'--that people are particularly afraid who know that that's back there, that that's in their own persona somewhere, and they want to push it away." ... WFB: "Is it socially embarrassing to be a Christian in a faculty?" EvdH: "Yes." WFB: "So one just shuts up about it?" EvdH: "Right. Well, not altogether. There are some more respectable types. You may be a Thomist, say, as a philosopher."

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Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 30 minutes
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Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S1054
Record Number80040.1324
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