Your Anger Is Required!
What Can We Do About The EVIL In the World?
By Nathan Dean, Blue Mountain Church
Editor’s Note from Jason Salyer (ON3):
This week I’m sharing an article written by my pastor, Nathan Dean of Blue Mountain Church in Blairsville. I believe this message speaks directly to men, fathers, and people of faith who refuse to grow cold in a world that often normalizes evil. I am reposting it with permission and full credit because I think it deserves to be read, prayed over, and wrestled with.
Your ANGER Is REQUIRED?
This week in my life like all the others has been full of conversation. Unique in this one is the a greater weight on sexual abuse, child trafficking, and the ownership of our government by evil men and foreign entities.
What has been surprising is the tuned-out indifference of so many of the Christian men I know. I am finding that the highest profile revelation of the worst evils imaginable - the Epstein disclosures - is near universally being received by many Christian men effectively with a shrug.
This tells me and everyone else paying attention that the worst predations against women and children that we have seen other men tolerate in other places, men here in our country overwhelmingly would also tolerate.
The greatest failing of men is not our over aggression but our passivity. Tolerance, indifference, and passivity in the face of evil - is evil. Your anger is required.
Seeds of evil will always find their way into the garden, but it is the tolerance and passivity of “decent men” that allow them to grow. That is how every evil finds its place in our world. It is allowed, permitted, tolerated.
Your anger is required. Righteous anger is an attribute of God. Anger says there is something wrong, there is something that needs protecting. It is outside of the character of Christ to not have the capacity and tendency towards anger in the face of evil and injustice.
For the love of God and all that is innocent and good, get angry.
In talking about the end of times for the world or just our world, Jesus says, “Because of the increase of wickedness, in those days, the love/heart of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm till the end will be saved” (Matthew 24:12-13).
Jesus is telling us the prevalence of wickedness causes people to become indifferent to evil, to stop loving people, to stop being moved by goodness or depravity, innocence or corruption, beauty or ugliness. Our small, cold, anger-less hearts become a permission slip for evil to grow - and then the end comes.
Two questions.
Is this true?
This is an important question to ask about nearly everything in a world full of lies and manipulations. Righteous anger should motivate you to find out.
If you do look, you will find something incredibly unique is happening. Republicans and democrats are both fighting to get the truth out and both republicans and democrats at the highest levels are complicit and working to bury the truth. You will find influencers from across the political spectrum - from The Young Turks, to Shawn Ryan, to Tucker Carlson - trying to shine a light on this. You will also find more data than you have the stomach to process on the DOJ’s website.
It is absolutely as true as it is terrible.
None of this should be listened to or looked into around children. It is about as dark as it gets.
What can I do about it?
Sometimes this question is an attempted justification for passivity - a shrug - but sometimes it’s not. Either way, the answer is “A lot.”
Number 1 - Be angry. Yes, anger in itself is affective. It says something is not okay and it provides the fuel and determination for action. Also, your anger is one of the biggest things that traumatized children and grownups need from you. They need people to believe them and have conviction in their soul say, “That’s not okay what they did to you!” For those of you unfamiliar with trauma let me re-emphasise that your anger matters. It eases the pain in the same way that indifference drives it in further.
Number 2 - Pray. Some Christians have come to understand that prayer is affective action, some unfortunately haven’t gotten there yet. Prayer in itself is affective action but it also gives resolve, wisdom, and strength to further actions. To our detriment, we have forgotten in the modern West that personified evil is real, but it is. We aren’t just fighting against flesh and blood and the depravity of man, but evil itself. Pray for the victims, pray for the hearts of many that have grown cold, pray for more truth to come out, pray that evil people would be brought to justice, pray for the protection, success, and strength of those fighting for good. You don’t need to know names. God does.
Number 3 - Engage. Say what is true to the best of your understanding. Say it to your friends and all who will listen. Post true things on the internet. See what stance your congressman and senator have taken on this. Call their office and let them know how big a deal this is to you. Set reminders and habits in your life to keep at it. Typically political power believes they just need to ride something like this out until the next distraction or until they can get us into a war. Don’t let them be right. Will those five minutes of phone calls a week make a difference? Maybe. Maybe not. How much of a difference will not calling make? Either way, that is the question of the indifferent, the cold hearted, of those who prefer the comfort of pre-emptive surrender more than they care about the suffering of others.
Men, women, people of God, people of conscience, your anger is required. Your very soul requires it.
None of these things are over. Nothing has been stopped. Somewhere, many somewheres, the people who rule our world are breaking the souls of children.
You should be angry.
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My Closing Thoughts
As believers, anger is not the enemy. Misplaced anger is. Selfish anger is. Undisciplined anger is.
But righteous anger is different.
Righteous anger says:
Children should be protected.
Evil should be exposed.
Truth matters.
Preparedness is not just about food storage and gear. It is about moral clarity. It is about refusing to normalize what God calls evil.
If you are a father, lead your home. Teach your sons to protect, not exploit. Train them to stand firm, to defend the innocent, to have courage under pressure, and to never tolerate what destroys families and children.
If you are a mother, teach your daughters who they are in Christ. Give them confidence. Teach them their worth is not negotiable. Guard their hearts and build their identity on truth before the world tries to rewrite it.
Raise sons who step forward.
Raise daughters who know their value.
If you are a believer, pray like it matters.
Do not let your heart grow cold.
– Jason Salyer
ON3Ready
Truer words were never spoken! Thank you for the reminder and the conviction to stop and pray. As well as stand up to evil, and protect those that can't protect their selves. And thank you for using your platform for good, the advancement of the gospel, and being a good steward!
This is so true. I always wonder about the fathers that sit idly by while “trans” men are allowed in their daughter’s sports leagues and LOCKER ROOMS. Why are they so weak?