It’s part of an insidious spirit of fear that Americans have been accepting. It comes from Old Scratch, the devil, not from God.
Evangelism is going to be the long term answer, if there is one. The power of God is what gives people the power to say no to the hobgoblins.
I’m not cheering for any spoiled-for fight. The battle lines should be drawn between men and Satan rather than between man and man. But that is not easy and it can call for great sacrifices.
I’m not cheering for a fight either.
If one comes, it will be the ugliest thing ever.
I sincerely hope I never get to see it.
But if I do, I hope I’m cut from the same cloth as my forebears.