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Fear Not by David Warren

Because we are moderns, it is hard for us to understand the simplest classical phrases. We take Christ for a kind of psychological counsellor. “Fear not” becomes the equivalent of, “don’t worry be happy.” It is part of some mundane scheme for self-improvement, like diets. But as ever with Our Saviour, the meaning is more profound.

He calls us to Freedom — to dangerous Freedom — from the temptations and exclusions of our little enclosed lives. He says, “follow me,” to Freedom, from the world.

From “the world,” I do not exclude politics. The parties of pagan “progress” are desirous of slaves. Their policies are consistently those of the plantation. Their schools are (according to me, as ever) designed to idiotize the general public, to keep them “low information,” and thus malleable. They manipulate fear — even unreasoning fear of the Batflu — to keep the people in muzzles and chains. They seek to “guide us” in the most petty ways; and they are habitual liars. That is because “the end justifies the means,” for those without faith.

For they, too, are imprisoned by fear. And their worst fear is that we will be unafraid.

Fear not : Essays in Idleness

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  • James O'Neil October 30, 2020, 12:59 PM

    Whatever your faith (or lack thereof), well worth a critical read.

  • Minta Marie Morze November 1, 2020, 1:22 PM

    I’ve read David Warren for years, and I thank you, Gerard, for bringing him so often to others.

    His metaphor of the prisoner of war camp is superb. A short read demanding long thoughts.

    America itself needs a Great Escape from those who seek to disestablish it from its Founding Documents and the developed philosophical undergirding that freed us from slavery.