I am constantly on the lookout for ways to explain why so many fear so much in the world today. The quote above is the most succinct description of that process I have come across. Considering that fear is such a debilitating condition, it seems like everyone ought to be doing whatever they can to figure out a way to eliminate fear from their lives. In someways dibalitating fear might be more damaging than cancer, at least for most of us.

I think that maybe one group of people that have been the most fearful lately are Evangelical Christians. It is predicted that a big percentage of this group are MAGA folks. Their fear is so extreme that they would rather see a very unbalanced narcissist who promises everything but delivers nothing, to hold the highest office in the land.

I was at one time a part of their flock and I saw first hand what today’s world would do to them. They had nothing good to say about so many different groups of people. They revoked my membership, thank heavens for that, over ten years ago when I said “it is foolhardy to think that the earth is only 6,000 years old”. I was shown the door (I certainly thank them for that). If it was up to me, I might have stayed longer, as my wife felt very comfortable there. She never forgave me for that expulsion.

The way that Evangelicals approach their fear is almost exactly like the quote above. Anything that might show error in their literal version of the Bible strikes fear in them. It is almost automatically deemed heresy. If they can’t control it they will fiercely attack it. There are so many things happening now that fall in this category, their anxiety and fear must be at an absolute panic level. The only solution they seem to see is to turn the U.S. into a theocracy that they CAN control.