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How many times a week do comment to yourself, or others, how far we have fallen as a society? Perhaps this observation is a daily occurrence?

While stopped at an intersection one recent early evening, I noted a lone man in the crosswalk wearing a covid mask. I repeat: he was alone and wearing a mask! Cue head shaking and eyes rolling.

Then, someone sends me this tweet a few days later, ” BRADY BUNCH FAMILY GETS THE MEASLES IN 1969.” Boy, is this video on point. Watch :

BRADY BUNCH FAMILY GETS THE MEASLES IN 1969.

Much different attitude vs today.pic.twitter.com/iNdYrWLkk5
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 24, 2025

What a difference half a century makes. Certainly, there were no such things as safe-spaces or trigger warnings because the culture was, predominantly, mentally tougher 55 years ago.

What caused this change from a culture laughing off once common illnesses, to people now scared for their lives the moment someone coughs or sneezes? I believe it’s America collectively losing the fear of God. I commented on this in my book American Christian: A Treatise of Spiritual, Cultural and Political Discernment. From the chapter titled, “On the Fear of the Lord,”:

“The West has reached the point where it has normalized pathological fear. Perhaps my statement could be construed as over-the-top, but you have only to reflect upon the culture’s obsessive fright over germs (what used to be seasonal maladies, such as the common cold or the flu) to see its accuracy. Fear has crossed from the reasonable to the irrational for an ever-growing number of Americans.” (Bahr, 2023. pg 23-24)

Fear of the Lord does not mean worrying if or when God will smite or punish you for some reason. Scripture actually tells us the fear of the Lord in the beginning of wisdom and, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. (Proverbs 9:10).

If the fear of the Lord (whether in reverence, awe, or dread) is the beginning of wisdom, therefore, no fear of the Lord results in folly, stupidity or irrationality; take your pick.

The Brady Bunch clip featured in this piece came from a time when Americans predominately feared God. The Law and Order: SVU clip , replete with dramatic pearl-clutching doom -and-gloom is from our “enlightened” (sarc) modern times.

Need I say more?

My, how far we have fallen.

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Reference

Bahr, Dex. (2023)American Christian: A Treatise of Spiritual, Cultural and Political Discernment. https://www.amazon.com/American-Christian-Spiritual-Political-Discernment-ebook/dp

How do we stop fearing when everyday the enemies of God and America bombard us with alarm, dread and uneasiness? The answer is simple: Seek the Lord with all your heart.

Here is a truth: our enemies are godless. Their father is Satan and they serve him in every capacity from when they rise to when they slumber.

Some gleefully worship the father of lies; those are the ones in power. You can see the evil in their eyes and in their faces.

However, most of the lost do so by default, because they either do not know Jesus or flat-out reject Him . What they fail to understand is if Jesus is not Lord of your life , then the devil is your dictator.

Don’t take my word for it. Look at their bitter fruits.

Most everything about our enemies is corrupt or counterfeit. Since they hate God, they hate beauty and worship ugliness. Their hatred of the Heavenly Father also causes them to equate lust with love and speak lies as truth.

Instead of worshiping God ,they worship goddesses or created things such as the earth. They do not know wisdom , only foolishness. This results in group thinkers who exalt chaos and division while scorning peace and unity.

The godless wallow in lawlessness while turning the law against the law-abiding . They call Christians weak-minded for fearing an invisible God, and not fearing their alarmist predictions of climate change or killer viruses.

Look at how the godless strenuously work to mainstream such perversion as drag queen story hour. All it takes is playing on people’s sense of justice , fairness and guilt. Note also their zeal for cancel culture and censorship of those who rebuke their efforts to normalize aberrant behavior.

Censorship isn’t alien to an ideology that hates the Holy Bible, the Constitution , America as founded , godly marriage, the family, children, masculinity, patriotism and the flag. Cancel culture is also no stranger to the godless.

Cancelling someone is the equivalent of salting the earth after destroying an enemy. One’s character is assassinated with cancel culture, but so are the reputations of friends and associates of the target. As if this isn’t bad enough , the merchants of venom then destroy the ability of the victim to make a living.

Such cold, vindictive evil would shame a God-fearing person, but it’s merely a form of control for the godless. Keep in mind that control is a reaction to fear. (More about this later)

This is why the godless value an all encompassing government versus a limited government, compliance more than freedom, and libertinism over liberty.

Everything , every action, dictate or outrage that comes from the godless comes from a spirit of darkness and fear. God -fearing Christians, especially those who follow politics and engage in the culture war ,scare the godless.

Why is this so? It seems odd since the godless dominate the corporate media , Hollywood academia and globalism. Their rhetoric and arrogance give the impression of the having the upper hand. However, they hate of the light of Jesus reflected by God-fearing Christians, especially those engaged in the culture war.

For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.—John 3:20 (English Standard Version)

Remember Jesus told us as the world hated Him, it will hate us. So how was Jesus sinless despite His enemies twisting His every word and looking for any excuse to kill Him? Even when Jesus drove the moneychangers from the temple , He committed no sin in His righteous anger.

Yes , Jesus was and is the Son of God . However, He walked the earth fully man and was tempted in every transgression. I believe He was able to resist because He constantly sought the Father in prayer.

How did the disciples stop fearing? They constantly sought the Lord in prayer.

We can do the same.

I sought the LORD, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.— Psalm 34:4 (ESV)

..(F)ear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. —Isaiah 41:10(ESV)

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.–Romans 8:26 (ESV)

So, may we stop fearing the godless? Stop fearing whether or not they will like you or even their threats. Place your fear only in God , which is the beginning of wisdom.

In wisdom we learn we have truth with God. That same insight tells us our enemies are weak because they have neither the Lord or truth.