"... the fact that not only political propaganda but the whole of modern mass publicity contains an element of threat" (The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, 1994; page 341, footnote 1).
The refusal of those seeking harmony in the social order to engage in counter-threats is the source of much that comes across as weak-willed and appeasing.
Worship is appeasement; and it implies the employment of threats in those settings where worship is not appropriate. The refusal to threaten is tantamount to a refusal to worship.
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