essential freedoms
speech, worship, from want, from fear
anywhere in world
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech, and expression—everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium.
It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, excerpted from the State of the Union Address to the Congress, January 6, 1941
What is it about these freedoms that make the followers of the evangelical church of trump so angry?
Any expression in favor if these freedoms cause a, to paraphrase CS Lewis, howl of sharpened famine that re-echoes at this moment through all the levels of the Kingdom of Noise down to the very Throne itself.
Let me focus on just one freedom, the freedom from fear.
Remember those days?
The days before we wondered, every minute of every day, what might happen next?
Remember that morning after the mid year elections in 2022?
That morning in America where we felt that America, the old America, the America that stood tall in the world, was still there and stirring.
We felt … freedom from fear?
For a few days anyway.
Now comes the 2nd chapter of the evangelical church of trump preaching fear, fear, fear.
Fear your neighbor.
Fear your friend.
Fear your family.
And … trust the evangelical church of trump.
And you will be free from fear.
I don’t know about you, but I think of Matthew 24:15 and I am waiting for the evangelical church of trump in bring about a golden statue of someone and set it someplace … “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel — let the reader understand.
For myself?
I am so tired of the fear.
I will rejoice in the Lord and tremble for my country as I know God is just.
Now that is something to be in fear of.
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