'There is hope. The hope is not that we can avoid suffering, though of course none of us wants to endure it. We don't get a say in the matter, unless we want to sell our souls (and even then it might not be enough). The gift of suffering -- the thing that led Solzhenitsyn to say, "Bless you, prison" -- is that it reveals God's mercy to us.'

“Don’t worry, after you are severely persecuted and thrown in prison, you might get released (if you survive) and can fight more until you finally win against communism.”

Not very cheery. Neither is this:

“The passivity and middle-class conformism of most American Christian churches will not be enough to withstand what's coming. The preoccupation so many conservative Christians have with MAGA and election fraud is a total distraction, as is the preoccupation of normie bourgeois Christians with trying to winsomely rationalize their way into blessing race, sex, and gender radicalism, so as not to lose their status in the late imperial order.”

The passive ones don’t even know about election fraud and certainly don’t stand up to it. Such a dumb take.