It Always Comes Back To Fear

Fear is the primary ingredient for hate. We cannot hate without it. The secondary ingredient is ignorence (sic) a.k.a ignorance. All other ingredients contribute to the flavor of hate, but not to its substance.

I have found through close personal introspection that every time I get angry (a clear symptom of hate), if I look behind the facade of reasons for my anger I will consistently find fear lurking in the subconscious shadows of my mind.

Reasons are the spices that flavor our hate, but they always only serve to mask the putrid flavor of raw fear and rank ignorance. Our capacity to reason has become our bane. It too easily allows us to live in a delusional world, where ravenous monsters of our own creation exacerbate the vast cesspool of reasons we need to spice up our hatred into its many palatable forms; outrage, indignation, irritation, frustration; even lust and desire.

But reasoning, as powerful as it seems for solving our problems, cannot see past its own creations to the very core of its own existence. Reason can not grasp the formless reality of the source of our being. And yet, only by recognizing this source can we overcome our fear, and our ignorance.

Yet, perhaps overcoming fear does not mean being rid of it! Maybe we need fear, and even the various forms of hatred that it substantiates, in order to live life as we know it. Which is to say that without fear and ignorance, there might not be a world for us to live in. The entire universe as we know it could merely be an illusion that must be substained by a balance between faith and fear, knowledge and ignorance, love and hate.

By overcoming our fear we put it „beneath our feet”, compelling it to serve us rather than rule us. This is the message of the Bible, the „Gospel” that saves. It is the knowledge of eternal truth that brings salvation and infinite peace.

But you cannot overcome fear with reason. Reason is fear's invention. Fear is the ultimate master of reason and so reason can never be used to overcome fear. Fear will even deceive us into believing that we can defeat it with reason. This is the falacy of nearly all worldly religions; they seek to justify their beliefs, and to destroy fear (i. e. „evil”) rather than to overcome it.

Fear knows it cannot be destroyed. Fear itself fears only being overcome, and forced to submit to the will of „God” as expressed through women and men. It also knows that it can never be overcome with reason. That is why it has established so many belief systems that seek to either „destroy evil” or otherwise overcome evil with reason.

Only faith can overcome fear. You cannot fight it, you must release it.

We use faith to control our fear, not destroy it.

(Originally written by Joseph E. Duncan III - September 12, 2010 – 12:30 pm)