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The Dangerous Distortion of Fear

The Dangerous Distortion of Fear

Monday, September 22, 2025
Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered perhaps his most famous line—“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”—at his first inauguration in 1933. That speech stands as one of the most significant in American political history, but I confess that this best-known claim has always baffled me.  In 1933, the United States was in the middle Read more... The post The Dangerous Distortion of Fear appeared first on Christianity Today.