Fear Sells

By Rob Pue

June 22, 2025

Galatians 6:9, “And let us not grow weary in well doing, for in due season, we shall reap, if we faint not.”  I confess today that I’m tired, I’m weary.   But I haven’t grown weary in well doing.  In fact, that’s what gives me the power and strength to get up every day and press on.  But I’m very tired and weary of the biblical illiteracy and lack of knowledge of the Lord and His ways that so many who claim His name demonstrate all the time.

Jesus told us not to worry.  Scripture tells us over and over again to “fear not.”  Yet, so many professing Christians have become professional worriers.  In fact, they seem to crave conflict, civil war and division.  Perhaps they just crave justice, but as I look at my 24/7 news feeds from many different alternative media news sources, I’m weary of all the fear mongering, all the doom and gloom, “apocalyptic” and end-of-the-world headlines that I come across — headlines that Christians can’t help but be drawn to, as they feed their fearful hearts.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot of bad stuff going on.  A lot of bad things happening in the world.  And that “great and terrible Day of the Lord” certainly could come at any moment.  But after a lifetime of watching fearful and abominable things come upon the earth and then disappear, only to be replaced by the next big “apocalyptic” event, I’m tired of it.  This steady stream of worrisome stories that flows out of the mainstream news media — and now, even many Christian news sources — is what fuels many of these organizations.  Fear is big money to the media, and I’m weary of professing Christians who continue to buy into it all.

There are fearful news stories with dramatic headlines coming out of Christian and other alternative media that I see every day.  Sometimes the headlines seem so compelling that even I feel the need to read those articles.  But for me, that’s happening much less often now.  I don’t claim to know the future, but I can certainly learn from the past, and I say “shame on those media outlets that claim to be ‘Christian’ but only continue to exist because they have become experts at turning fear of the future into a very profitable money-making enterprise.

Yes, we should be informed.  As Christians, we should be the most informed about current world events of all people.  But we need to learn to discern, and stop supporting, following and falling prey to what’s known in the news business as “fear porn.”  Like regular pornography, “fear porn” sells.  It gets “clicks” on the internet.  It’s a multi-billion-dollar industry of books, videos and other so-called “teaching tools” and seminars.  Podcast hosts become rich and famous — well respected as “watchmen on the walls.”  But not all of these “watchmen” are really watchmen — they’re just utilizing the system they’ve developed to build their personal wealth, and a lot of what they produce is just pure “fear porn.”

There are some good speakers, educators and experts out there that we should be listening to and learning from.  But sadly, the vast majority of those that even Christians follow, are simply exploiting horrific national and world events.  Again, because fear sells, and people buy it.

I, myself, have written a multitude of articles on current world events.  But you may have noticed, when something “big” happens in the world, such as the burning down of Lahaina on Maui, the hurricane in Appalachia, wars in Ukraine and Israel, and the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, I don’t immediately jump on the story, take a side, and then start scaring people.  When something major happens, I discern and I wait.  Sometimes I can easily identify a “false flag” event or a manipulation tactic and dismiss it as just that.  Sometimes it’s important enough to take the time to do in-depth research to dig out the truth the best I can, but it’s always a while before I render my opinion.  So that, when I do, what I say about a subject has been well-researched and verified.  Only then do I share my conclusions through articles, radio broadcasts and television programs.

Many alternative news websites pick up my articles and republish them.  I hear from a lot of people always wanting to know why I haven’t written anything on some particular story.  It’s either because I haven’t yet had time to study and research it, or it was easy to discern that this was fake news, a “false flag” event or a story meant to scare, manipulate and divide the public.  There are many things you’ll find at other media outlets that I never discuss, because I’m not interested in being a useful pawn of a deep state, government or media conspiracy to deceive, frighten and further divide people, who are already confused and their behavior manipulated over something that’s nothing more than pure, orchestrated theater.

So, bottom line here: learn to discern.  Stop worrying so much, because fear and worry are tools of the enemy to exploit the populace — either to get them to react in a certain way, or to paralyze them into doing nothing.  Quit playing their game, because it’s become a game of extremes, and what we need is a spirit of power, love and sound minds, a spirit of peace and balance — knowing Who is ultimately in control of this world.  Today, it’s all about extremes and often times the truth never even enters into the equation.

A couple cases in point.  Many Christians hated the administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and therefore, they manifested a spirit of hatred toward them.  In reality, while both were certainly corrupt, neither were actually running the country.  That was done by the people behind the curtain.  Biden and Harris were just the faces that represented the evil, allowing those on the “right” to put a face and a person on the non-visible demons who were actually in control…thereby creating people we could hate.

Then we have Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Many people hate Trump.  They don’t trust him.  They call him a Nazi and a Fascist, with no evidence to back up their claims, but rather, just mere rhetoric.  When asked why they hate him or call him a Nazi, they can’t give you a solid, truthful answer.  They’re simply parroting the talking points they’ve been manipulated to believe.  But like all the presidential administrations in my lifetime, I don’t believe he’s really running anything either.  We’ve again been presented with two polar opposites — the Left versus the Right.  So, now the Orange Man is the hated one.

Do you not understand that this is all mere theater?  Our two-party system exists only to create the division needed to keep us in chaos and confusion.  Common sense, real truth and knowledge never enters into it.  It’s a divide and conquer strategy that the two parties — (the only ones allowed to exist by the entities who actually run the world) — have developed and perfected to manipulate and control what we, the people, do and how we behave.

So, you can disagree strongly with the official policies of the Left (and I do), but don’t hate people…even those who serve as the “frontmen” and appear responsible for it all.  They’re not responsible, nor are they in control of anything.  They’re just pawns in the game, doing what they’re told… or more likely, not really doing anything at all, except serving as the “face” we’re supposed to hate.  And yes, they’re corrupt, wicked and evil.  But they’re politicians, folks.  What did you expect?

Meanwhile, those on the Left disagree strongly with the policies of Trump.  I’m not sure how any American can disagree with the MAGA agenda, or the common sense things Trump and his administration have told us they want to do.  And if you ask a Leftist to explain their reasoning as to why they hate Trump and his policies, they can’t give you a reasonable, educated answer or present a truthful argument for why they believe what they believe.  All they know is that they hate Trump.  Again, he’s merely a “face” for people to hate.  And incidentally, many of Trump’s campaign promises have quietly unraveled since he took office.  It’s my prediction that nothing really substantial is going to come out of his second term — only the things of those who hold the puppet strings want to happen will actually happen.  So Lefties, you can quit worrying too.  You’ll still have all your LGBTQP+ “rights,” you’ll still be able to murder babies, and the lawlessness you love so much will continue to abound across this nation.

But evil needs chaos, confusion, fear… and most of all, hatred.  This is the opposite of God’s design and His commands.  Professing Christians need to be more than chuch-goers and become Christ followers.  This means being genuinely informed and seeking out the truth in all things, rather than relishing the scary stories we love so much as our “entertainment,” salivating at the idea of the apocalypse in hopes we can hasten the rapture while sitting back, frozen in fear and waiting for the rapture.

We’re supposed to be busy about our Father’s business.  We’re supposed to be investing the talents He’s blessed us with to further His kingdom and be a restraining force against evil.  And we’re not supposed to have a spirit of fear.  Just the opposite.  We’re to have power, love and sound minds.  Most of the things we worry about never happen anyway.

On the weekend of June 14th, my wife and I attended a ministry event several states away.  Prior to that, I spoke with several people who were very fearful of the nation-wide violence the Leftists were planning for their “No Kings” protest.  I told them all not to worry about it.  It was merely a ploy to strike fear into the hearts of Americans, further their narrative that Trump is a dictator, and try their best to market their lies nationwide to those they’ve not yet brainwashed.

I woke up that Saturday morning to the latest big news: Democrat politicians in Minnesota had been killed overnight in a home invasion and two more Democrats there were injured.  While violence like this is tragic, it should also have been easily recognized as an orchestrated attempt to instill even more rage among the brainwashed masses on the Left.  I also knew immediately that the mainstream media would announce the killer was a Trump supporter, and alternative media would put out mixed messages as to who did it.  The truth is it could have been either side.  Almost certainly, it was an “inside job,” but it didn’t really have the intended effect.

I don’t think the crowds of protestors grew any larger because of it, and the rage and hatred of those on the Left didn’t get any stronger, because they’ve already reached their rage and hatred capacity a long time ago.

Lawlessness has increased and the love of many has grown cold.  There’s a great famine of Godly spiritual truth and wisdom in our nation.  There are many reasons for this: Biblical illiteracy comes immediately to mind.  We don’t study God’s Word anymore.  We go to church, the pastor preaches, we go home… that’s what Christians do now.   There’s no excuse for us who name the name of Christ to be ignorant about anything, especially the spiritual battle we’re in, able to rightly divide the Word of Truth and discern truth from lies, and good from evil.  But “evil men have crept in to our assemblies, unawares….ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”  (Jude 1).  “Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.” (Proverbs 28:5).

Yes, we seek justice, we want righteousness.  Yet we seem to thrive on bad news and we seem to be cheering on the ever-growing wickedness in our nation, in hopes that may hasten our Lord’s return, and meanwhile, we worry and fret, while doing nothing substantial with our talents.  We’re all going to have to answer to our Lord one day for what we — each one of us — has done today.  Where’s your faith, Christians?  Where are the fruits of your faith?  Will all the time you wasted on all those things you’ve feared add a single moment to your life?  Will you be among the cowardly and unbelieving of Revelation 21:8?

“Be anxious for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”  Give it to God, then move on and use your talents for His kingdom.  You know, the Left wants “no kings.”  But whether they like it or not, there IS a King — and one day, every knee shall bow and every tongue confess to that truth.  Do you want to be among His faithful on that day, or will He say, “Depart from Me. I never knew you?”

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