One of the greatest quotes from Dune, both the movie and book, is a simple and very profound mantra. While watching the 1984 version of the film, I heard it for the first time and thought “how corny.” But if not embraced, it becomes a mindset that will overpower a man. It reduces a man willingly to mental servitude, can paralyze him to inaction, and will always lead to defeat, long before his enemies have launched their first offensive.
It is: “Fear is the mind-killer.”
It’s that simple, and I have seen fear overwhelm people many times, including myself. However, we must break away from allowing it to possess us. Throughout Scripture, the expression “fear not” interrupts the natural inclination of men when the supernatural is revealed, such as an angel or a calamity. When the angels appear to Abraham, right before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, he is not to fear. Even in the troubled and desperate times of the early Church, Paul reminds a very young Timothy: “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” (2 Timothy 1:7)
There are infinite expressions of fear, and right now you are probably thinking about at least one of your fears. But before we get too deep into this article, let me express to you that there is a healthy type of fear, a respect for that which can do harm, but never to the point of paranoia or paralysis. We must have a healthy fear of our Lord Jesus Christ, for He can destroy the body, soul, and spirit. Many have forgotten this, as they sit on the sidelines, denying Our Lord before men, due to apathy, apprehension, and apoplexy for those who’ve taken a stand for our Southern Christian homeland.
In our struggle, in our quest to retake everything that belongs to our Southern people, we must be ready to do the hard things. We must raise up leaders to press forward for us, through the difficult times that are coming soon.
We have a living example of this, one just south of our border in El Salvador. Nayib Bukele is the young president of what was once the most dangerous country in the Americas (by any measure of violence). This was a nation where every type of crime imaginable ran rampant: murder, drug trafficking, human trafficking, an entrenched violent gang culture, etc. The people were paralyzed in fear, poverty, and hopelessness. But Bukele has been doing the hard things, destroying the gangs that rampaged through his homeland, imprisoning tens of thousands that were destroying his people. Of course, all as the usual suspects wailed and threatened him with sanctions and other punishments. I am sure he feared for his personal safety, and the safety of those he loves, but he did not let it paralyze him. And, he is doing the hard and necessary things to secure a future for his people.
Recently, he gave a speech before the United Nations, and this line resonated with me, echoing in my soul. And not just for his people, but as an inspiration for all those that refuse to let a corrupt world system dictate the future.
“We refuse to accept the destiny that others had laid out for us,” said Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador.
Please, don’t take this as an endorsement for everything this man has done, or will do in the future. Ideas are much bigger than men. It is the idea, and the willingness to take action and to pursue a destiny, whatever the costs.
This is the path forward for our people, rejecting the future that our enemies have laid out for us, and having a love for our land, our people, and our nation. A perfect love that casts out all fear!
Deo Vindice!
God save the South!
Service to God and honor to the South.
Very balanced approach and something we all need to hear. Well done.
I’m reading treatises right now by Christopher Love that are an exposition of Matt. 10:28. It’s really bringing home to my mind that people today (including professing Christians) don’t fear God, and that’s at the root of all our other fears. Jeb Stuart exhorted his men before battles, ‘Fear God men, and you won’t have anything else to fear.’
Thank you brother, and Jen had it absolutely perfect.
JEB! Has it right.
Dang spell correct.
Amen, Padre…
There hundreds of times in Scripture we’re told to “fear not.” This doesn’t mean sit back and relax and let God do all the work…that is presumption and depending on your creed, a sin. The future is not written, action alone is required. Get busy today, get your house in order then go from there.
“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also”
Our movement must have a body of the faithful and those faithful must have a spirit of works, or we have nothing.
Great words to start the day Father Dabney. Thank you and God Bless you Sir.
Thank you.
100% correct but there’s another component : Our inner ‘lazy voice.’ We all have one. It’s the reason we have to drag our body to the gym sometimes 🙂 If we allow the lazy voice to be in charge it will kill us! It pretty much only wants to watch TV and have food delivered.
Southern patriots are not immune to the war between spirit and flesh. Even those who present a persona of “type A alpha authority on (?)” often have a tendency to try to order / influence others to give in to their lazy voices and not “do” whatever needs to be done in whatever particular situation, because “they” are under the control of “their” lazy voice. Make sense? It’s basic psychology but VERY important because it’s a very powerful invisible enemy that has hijacked the psyche of most southern nationalists.
Kick the lazy voice off the throne and retake control and don’t listen to bullies who themselves are under the spell of their own invisible enemy! It’s way past time to DO. But better late than never.
Shhhh…that’s another part of the series…lol
You’re absolutely correct.
When does our racial salvation come? It comes when we fear for the future of our children more than we fear “our” government!