Fearfulness, fighting & feminists

And as for him who lacks the courage to defend even his own soul: Let him not brag of his progressive views, boast of his status as an academician or a recognized artist, a distinguished citizen or general. Let him say to himself plainly: I am cattle, I am a coward, I seek only warmth and to eat my fill. —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Live Not By Lies

Cowardice is the sin in which the darkness of our times has taken root.

You might think folly would be our most serious sin—that men today lack wisdom. But this is just another angle on their being cowards:

Only, be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the Law which Moses My servant commanded you; you do not turn aside from it right or left, so that you will act wisely in every place to where you go; the scroll of this Law shall not depart out of your mouth, and you shall meditate in it by day and by night, so that you observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then you cause your way to prosper, and then y…