Taking Advantage of Fear

   As I have observed and lived this coronavirus pandemic like everyone else has, it’s become obvious that fear is very much part of this situation. I have seen fear on the faces of people in stores.  I’ve heard it in voices and read it on social media posts and even in emails and phone calls we’ve received in our office.

   When people are motivated by fear, outside control becomes very easy.  Fearful people will allow themselves to be told what to do and how to think, and when enough people are fearful enough for long enough, controlling powers can have a veritable  heyday.  I think we are beginning to see this pretty clearly right now.

   I’ll state it directly.  I believe there are some in places of authority who really don’t want religion and, in particular Christianity, to flourish — ever, not during a pandemic and not during times of peace and prosperity.  A flourishing, vibrant, non-fearful Christianity, from their perspective, is a threat to everything they believe, whether it’s advancing abortion or the LGBT agenda or socialism or you name it.  Pandemics, where many people are consumed with fear,  make it easier to control Christianity — whether that’s diabolical and purposeful in motive or done out of a true desire to protect public health.

   All of this is how we got to the point recentl ...