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The Problem of Automatically Trusting Someone Because He/She is ‘God-Fearing’

Black woman
Black woman

When a woman lists the qualities she wants in a man – first on the list is ‘He should/must be God-fearing’. It’s always the ‘Godly’ man because they attach ‘goodly’ to his godly nature. That is their choice of man they want/need and their reason/s for wanting such men is not far- fetched. However, the automatic ‘goodness and trust’ they ascribe to a supposedly ‘God-fearing’ man is what is very enthralling. Ask them who a God-fearing man is and they’ll quote Bible up and down for you.

We trust others because they earned that trust or vice versa but fortunately/unfortunately (depending on the angle from which you’ll look at things) being a fellow God-fearing club member is enough to gain the trust of some people. People have realised this ‘get things quick’ scam so much so that they are very quick to display ‘God-fearing’ traits to get what they want. They use that to cover their true nature because by hook or crook, his/her fellow brethren will trust totally without thinking things through.

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