Instead of scaring people into the Kingdom with threats of hell, let's love people into the Kingdom instead. (redeeminggod.com)
His messages often seem to be messages of inspiration rather than threats of hell fire and brimstone. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Hercules, Caesar, Colleoni: there is symbolized brute strength, military power, political power, economic power, the power to enslave and destroy; the power of international arms sales, nuclear stockpiles, oil cartels and transnational corporations; the spiritual power of imposed belief and religious triumphalism demanding obedience and maintaining an uncertain peace by the balance of terror, whether by threats of hell or atomic apocalypse. (religion-online.org)