Hell yes they scare me. Richard Dawkins compares religious indoctrination of childer as tanamount to child abuse and I agree. What a terrible thing to instill a child with supernatural beliefs that only serve to segregate people and create fear and suspicion in adulthood. All over what? Some goofy god guy that has somehow managed to propagate from the ages of mysticism and ignorance. Religion is shameful.

Any time somebody makes an ill-informed decision (especially if they're in some position of power), then there's a risk they'll do something stupid. Since religious organizations can claim any terrible thing to be true (gays have no rights, burn the witch, hey let's go on a crusade, etc.) and don't have to back it up with any well informed argument, they can get away with anything.

Needless to say the United Church (or insert other liberal religious org.) isn't a particularly frightening place, but there are many out there who are extremely illogical and malicious in their beliefs.

I'm scared of any organization that's unpredictable and has a history of violence, such as some religious groups.

When they get so much power they tell us what to do and how to think then yes they scare anybody not brianwashed to think the same way they do.

Religious organizations only scare me when they try to convert or influence others to follow them or are intolerant of other people's views on that religion and others. Also any religious organization that requires you to donate money is terrifying and just plane wrong and not that religious.

Um....yes! If I ever moved down to the south I'd be terrified of almost all the white people down there! The F-ing KKK terrorizing those of the non-supior race and shit! DX

No. Only because I can pass for a Christian though, and I live in a majority Christian country. Anytime a large group of people starts chasing around an imaginary father figure in the sky its kind of scary though. I mean if they believe that, what else will they believe?

well, all organizations can be scary if taken to the extreme (religious, PeTA, Marxists).

but i wouldn't say religious organizations in general scare me. extreme organizations do of course (no matter the belief is).

No more than the Wicked Witch of the West scares me.

Ridicule & shun, that's my MO for the religious.

All religions have an agenda that is not always as closely related to it's origins as we may like to believe. It is like any other institution in this way. So can Religion be scary? Sure, just as public education or political parties can be. If you hand over your individuality, your ability to think for yourself, that's the price you pay. But let's call that what it is...'user error'.

I am firm in my established beliefs and in general religious organizations do not scare me, at least here in the United States. Some of the stranger religions seem a bit odd and have some scary origins and practices, like some of the animalistic, Voodoo and sacrificial religions in the Caribbean and Central & South America but they are usually very unorganized. The Wiccans and Skin Heads can be a little bit intimidating but again, they don't seem to organized and don't have too much in the way of funding.

Abroad, the Wahabbis, Hamas and Al-Qaeda are scary of course. They have no regard for human life. They will kill their own kind and fellow Muslim. Their hate is so ingrained and entrenched. There is no reasoning with these terrorists, they wear no military uniforms and use unconventional tactics to kill innocent people. They have no conscience. That is scary!

Religion is something for the weak to believe in, the strong to put energy into, and it gives people without anything to do something.

people are like sheep. they need something to follow.

sheep are easily scared, so are people, but it is only 'scary' if taken to the extremes of the religion. i.e. terrorists.

no. religious organizations dont scare me.

but my overly religious parents do.