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St. Benedict and the Fear of the Lord Throughout the ancient world the God’s were something that people loved and hated. They did have a certain fear from their gods, but it wasn’t like that kind of fear of the Middle Ages. With Christianity coming into full stride, the mentality of the time was that God was something to be feared. This is something of importance, the middle ages are riddled with the …

…Ages becomes a transformation of not just loving your god, but fearing him with all you’ve got. The main reason that this is contributed to is, now people don’t have a “king” to refer to. The Empire has fallen and they must look towards the heavens. But the new goal for life is not to increase the land, or get riches, it becomes, “I must not do anything to make my God angry.”