Originally Posted by Jatd

It is absolutely frustrating and makes so little sense, but you have to remember that this way of thinking comes from FEAR.
Fear of Evil, Fear of Satan, Fear of God. These people are constantly afraid, afraid to upset God, Afraid of the world, afraid of not being good enough ...
Everything they do is a constant judgement of themselves. Was this right, was this wrong?

Sounds way too stressful to me and doesn't sound very Godly, if anything it sounds very human, and very goal oriented.. to "control the minds of people"
...and this is how you do it, make them afraid.