day no. 16,186: if fear is the new faith, don't be afraid to be excommunicated

Philippians 4:6-7

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Fear and anxiety are faith in a negative future. It is an indomitable belief that things are going badly and about to get worse. Fear and anxiety are the new orthodoxy and those lacking sufficient shock are being shunned.

So, be a heretic.

Be an unbeliever.

Do not rehearse their catechism.

Do not join in their dirge.

Better to be banished from the synagogue of Satan than to be embraced by it.

If fear is the new faith, don't be afraid to be excommunicated.

Skip this church.

Don’t tithe to it.

Don’t sign the guestbook.

Don’t eat their sacraments and don’t get baptized into their communion.

Do not recite their prayers or participate in their feasts or fasts.

Keep the feast of faith in Christ.

Let’s ride

"The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice." — G.K. Chesterton