Some people are like you say, knowing but feeling helpless. But others are like some of my family members: they really don’t believe a conspiracy is possible. They believe that it would take the silence of too many people. But what they miss is that whistleblowers do exist, and they don’t believe them either. So they are proved partly right that complete silence is not always feasible, but when that silence is broken, they call the person crazy who breaks it!!!
It’s maddening.
I’m Orthodox, and I live in Russia. The Church will not pray for two types of people in services: suicides (among the departed) and perverts (dead or alive). We are forbidden to write them on the lists and must only pray for them privately. This is very significant. There is a big difference between one’s personal “enemies” and those who are destroying humanity. Personal enemies we must forgive. The truly evil, we must not!!
I used to live in Chicagoland; I get it. People are mean and not afraid to get in your face. I once had a grocery cashier yell at me loudly from across the aisle for being pregnant at Dominick’s in Glen Ellyn. Not fun.
There’s a nerd in the comments who thinks he can fact check the whole article away. But he brings weak sauce.