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Fear & Faith in the Age of COVID
New Horizons ^ | 11/23/20 | Rev. Brian De Jong

Posted on 11/30/2020 4:33:57 PM PST by Pining_4_TX

Of greater concern is the presence of a gripping fear that is increasingly controlling the lives and actions of many in our society. We are being infected with and motivated by fear. This phenomenon is only heightened by the uncertainties surrounding the recent elections, and especially the highly charged Presidential race. Fear of possible negative political outcomes only fuels existing fears over the Coronavirus. It is a perfect storm for terrorizing a society.

Fear is dangerous because it enters a person and sets up shop within the heart and the mind. It lurks within, ready to seize any opportunity for proposing worst-case scenarios. When there is uncertainty, or any doubt, fear quietly advocates the darkest possible outcomes. It whispers suggestions that are neither reasonable nor likely. It plays on the imagination by promoting suspicions, worry, guilt, and regret. It paints a caricature of wickedness, making evil to seem supreme, unstoppable, inevitable and irresistible.

Fear often paralyzes its victims to keep them from any thought or action that might break the spell. Fear directs the focus away from the light and into the darkness, away from a Sovereign God and onto a defenseless victimized self, away from hope and toward despair. Fear saps courage from the heart, it weakens the knees and reduces the strength of the grip until it has induced unconditional surrender.

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TOPICS: Current Events; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics; Theology
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid; culture; faith; fear; god; hysteria; society
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1 posted on 11/30/2020 4:33:57 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: Pining_4_TX

I don’t fear the CCP Virus or the Left. I guess there must be something wrong with me, but whatever it is, I like it!


2 posted on 11/30/2020 4:41:02 PM PST by Intar
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To: Intar

That is the point. If you fear God, you need not fear anything or anyone else.


3 posted on 11/30/2020 4:43:18 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (I'm old enough to remember when you actually had to be able to do something to be hired to do it.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

QFT. I was trying to be ironic.


4 posted on 11/30/2020 4:47:09 PM PST by Intar
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To: Intar

QFT? I’m assuming that’s bad. ;-)

It’s hard to know a person’s intent in writing.


5 posted on 11/30/2020 4:50:09 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (I'm old enough to remember when you actually had to be able to do something to be hired to do it.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

QFT = Quoted for Truth. I was agreeing with you 😉


6 posted on 11/30/2020 4:51:16 PM PST by Intar
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To: Intar

Oh, thank you. Being an old gal, I’m pretty tech challenged.


7 posted on 11/30/2020 4:54:11 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (I'm old enough to remember when you actually had to be able to do something to be hired to do it.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

All that it takes to have courage is to stop being fearful.

The Democrat slavemasters want you to be afraid.

What do we have to be afraid of?


8 posted on 11/30/2020 4:59:32 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Pining_4_TX

That is the point. If you fear God, you need not fear anything or anyone else.

Pretty much sums it all up, doesn’t it ?


9 posted on 11/30/2020 5:02:26 PM PST by redrhino47
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To: Pining_4_TX

It is my experience that it is females who are terrified of COVID.

Sorry if that’s Sexist, but that’s my experience.


10 posted on 11/30/2020 5:04:31 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Pining_4_TX
Romans 8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
11 posted on 11/30/2020 5:06:57 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: blueunicorn6

Sorry if that’s Sexist, but that’s my experience.

Now that you mention it...?


12 posted on 11/30/2020 5:08:25 PM PST by redrhino47
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To: Pining_4_TX

I don’t fear God Our Father.I enjoy HIM.My Son-Daughter-in-law and Grandson have covid.Very sick-but doing better except for the 18 year old.Son-in-law’s crew member was in ER over the weekend.32 years old covid,very sick.Just some of the stuff going on here.


13 posted on 11/30/2020 5:09:39 PM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: fatima

I do not fear my God either. I fear, my weakness.

We’re talking irrational fear, right.
There’s no evidence of people dying in massive numbers

Prayers up for your people.


14 posted on 11/30/2020 5:20:42 PM PST by redrhino47
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To: redrhino47

I am taking my Family.I know nothing about the other stuff.Thank you for your prayers.


15 posted on 11/30/2020 5:23:47 PM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: fatima

Got it. My family is in the grip of Chinee virus hysteria.

Ruining their lives.


16 posted on 11/30/2020 5:31:35 PM PST by redrhino47
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To: colorado tanker
I’m afraid if I go out for a meal other people will die.

44 posted on 11/30/2020, 8:45:30 PM by TigersEye
(2020 - The year of massive frauds. Impeachment - masks - lockdowns - Biden - elections...)


17 posted on 11/30/2020 5:48:44 PM PST by redrhino47
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To: redrhino47

Apologies, for killing the thread.
I thought it had promise.


18 posted on 11/30/2020 5:51:16 PM PST by redrhino47
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To: redrhino47

Wait are you making fun of me.


19 posted on 11/30/2020 6:01:29 PM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Pining_4_TX

Psychiatrist Warns That Americans are in a State of ‘Delusional Psychosis’ Due to COVID-19 Mass Hysteria

Americans have been broken by fear.

Published 4 hours ago on Nov 30, 2020By Shane Trejo

A California psychiatrist is blowing the whistle about the state of “delusional psychosis” that millions of Americans have succumbed to after months and months of successful media-related propaganda about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Mark McDonald says that America will be “lost” because of how weak-minded, manipulable, cowardly Americans are turning on each other to enforce “nonsensical” restrictions supposedly meant to stop the virus.

“We don’t need a police force. We don’t need a secret Stasi to go after the neighbor that isn’t wearing his mask on a park bench. We have families who are willing to do that,” Dr. Mark McDonald stated during a summit on the virus last month.

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“We have office workers [who] will come by and mace you if you are not wearing a mask, and no one will come to your rescue. In fact, they’ll probably applaud it,” he added.

McDonald works as a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Los Angeles. He appeared at the virtual Truth Over Fear Summit that was organized by Catholic radio show host Patrick Coffin. He said that the fear among the public has “grown and become so entrenched that it has reached a state of what I would call delusional psychosis. A delusion is a fixed false belief that is contrary to reality.”

“Fear has become a new virtue. Never before in the history of this country have we told people that fear is good,” or to “settle into” those fears and allow them “to control and constrain your life,” McDonald added.

He also mentioned that Americans “who are either afraid, or who have been fed lies and misinformation for months now, have grown to not only feel afraid, but also to believe that what they are being told is true, which is primarily that all of us are at equal risk of catching a virus and dying from it.”

“This is demonstrably untrue. It is a lie, in fact. And we’ve known that it’s a lie for about six months, and yet people have come to believe it,” he added.

Big League Politics has reported on how the majority of Americans have become monsters, jettisoning all of their most time-honored principles, in order to submit blindly to COVID fear:

A shocking video has showed a deranged mob of fear-driven New Yorkers harassing a woman in a Staten Island grocery store and driving her from the establishment for not wearing a mask…

“From what I can see in the video it seems there aren’t employees of the store involved in removing the shopper,” said McAuley Holmes, who posted the viral video on Twitter, to Heavy.

“Obviously private businesses have the right to refuse service to non-mask wearers, but a group of shoppers is different. Masks are important in stopping the spread and wearing one is a sign of respect to others,” he added. “It’s understandable that people would be so serious about community enforcement in a place like Staten Island that has been hit so hard by COVID.”

While the zombie-like public begs for their fellow man to wear masks in a showing of collective servitude and submission, there is significant debate over whether or not wearing the masks even helps prevent the spread of coronavirus…

Much of the American public has surrendered their ability to think rationally due to the mass hysteria, and the sorry mob display in Staten Island is a terrifying example of this phenomenon.

Combine the coronavirus hysteria with the anti-white pogroms of Black Lives Matter and the vote rigging of the century, and it is clear that America is slipping into a dark age of Orwellian insanity. Humanity may never recover from the “Great Reset” into the one-world beast system that is currently underway.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/psychiatrist-warns-that-americans-are-in-a-state-of-delusional-psychosis-due-to-covid-19-mass-hysteria/


20 posted on 11/30/2020 6:11:12 PM PST by Grampa Dave (There was never a Biden win! It was stolen from Trump and us! When, will Biden Concede?)
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