Okay, the headline was meant to be ironic.
I grabbed these words from a great article titled What To Be Afraid Of by Timothy Egan. I hope you’ll ask yourself how much you’re influenced by the culture of fear-mongering in which we’re embedded.
Be prudent, of course. But don’t allow those with a vested interest in promoting fear cause you to live less than the life Jesus wants.
In 10 days the FREEDOM TOUR embarks on our 500-mile journey. It’s a bit frightening to take a team of riders on open roads for a week, but we’ve all chosen not to live in fear.
We hope God will use our efforts to change lives. It seems impossible. HOPE changes what’s possible.
The fear-industrial complex continues to dominate national priorities. Over the last 14 years, the enormous apparatus that has been built up to combat terrorism — huge structural changes in American society, and a lock-hold on the federal budget — has grown only more outsize and out of proportion to the actual threat.
You’ve heard it before, but it bears repeating: You are much more likely to be struck dead by lightning, choke on a chicken bone or drown in the bathtub than be killed by a terrorist. Any number of well-known diseases — cancer, diabetes, the flu — take the lives of far, far more people. Yet, by one estimate, the United States spends $500 million per victim of terrorism, and a piddling $10,000 per cancer death.
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