"Whether you are afraid or whether you are tough," he said in an interview, "you're stuck.
So any kind of truth cannot be something for Christians to be afraid of, whether it is the discovery of evolutionary processes, the detection of the Higgs boson, or archaeological investigations that show that a particular Old Testament story is an inaccurate portrayal of historical events.
Russian expat Natalia Kuleshina, who withdrew all her cash before the banks closed, said people were now afraid about whether salaries would be paid.
Now it seems the public are much less afraid, and, whether or not it's the case that majority support for independence exists, seem much more willing to put it to the test in a referendum.
They're afraid of whether modified food is truly safe to eat -- despite the overwhelming majority of existing research on the topic finding that to be the case.
"I just realized that we shifted from being on alert and afraid of whether it's the orange code or the yellow code," she says.
She seems afraid of finalities, whether it's ending a phone call or a finishing a book.
I hope that my dad's announcement and our family's story will have a positive impact on anyone who is closeted and afraid, and questioning whether there's something wrong with them.
"He likes to go where most people are afraid to tread, whether it's the Borland-Lotus case or Microsoft," said Yogen Dalal, a general partner with Mayfield Partners, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, Calif., who sits on the Voxeo board.
