@9one1,
You don't need to apologize, but learning from the experience might help. Nobody "retaliated," they just took your thesis apart like a cheap watch. You assmed, in the OP, that people fear god, fear the very word, that everybody needs to believe in a higher power, and that people become defenseive when the subject is god.
What you want to do if this sort of thing interests you is to ask people what they think, without making assumptions in advance. What you did was beg the questio--you begged a series of questions. You didn't simply ask if the word god scares people, you assumed it and began rationalizing it.
The classic example of begging a question is "Have you stopped beating your wife?" If someone says, yes, then they have implicitly admitted to beating their wife in the past. Of course, if they say no (only meaning that they don't beat their wife), then they make it appear that they've beaten their wife in the past and are still doing it. To respond to your OP, people would have to assume the burden of defending the concept of fearing the word god. That's why so many people simply pointed out that they fear or mistrust people who have the word god in their mouths all the time.
Ask simple, straightforward questions, without jumping all over the subject before anyone answers.
Most of all, follow Wolf Woman's advice--embrace the punctuation mark known as the period.
