Jesus Christ makes it clear the cowardly who watch a murder and do nothing are as guilty as the murderer, the cowardly who watch lies spreading in silence are as guilty as the liar in the Book of Revelation

 Revelation 21:8 NIV

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

Christ s condemnation of cowardice is clear. Cowardice comes before all the other vices in the list. It comes before murder, before sexually immoraltiy. It comes before lying.

The cowardly have no place in the new life, in heaven, which starts here on earth, in this life and continues into eternity.

The cowards place is in hell, in the fiery lake of burning sulfar.

How come? How come cowardice is such a serious flaw? How come a coward is consideered more vile, more guilty than a murderer and a lair? How come some one who sees a murder, for example, about to be committed and does nothing, is considered as vile as the murderer?

How can mere cowardice be such a terrible sin? How can be the first sin? 

It is clear.

Cowardice allows evil to expand and spread and kill and destroy.Revelation 21:8 NIV

All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing, said Edmund Burke.

But Christ says whoever does nothing in the face of evil is not a good man. He is as evil.

Whoever has a poisition of power and influence in society, in politices, in the media, and sees evil approaching, a threat approaching, a danger approaching, and does nothing, and so allows the evil to overcome, to kill millions, tens of millions and more, devastate societiies, is a coward responsible for all that death and suffering and going to hell, says Christ.

Whoever offers no resistance, who leaves the way open to the Barbarians to sack the city, is respojsible.

Cowardice, the indifference to the good, is the chief vice of our time according to St Paisios.

There are many justifications for it. For example, "protecting my family, my children" (when it is the same family and children s futures which are being destroyed by the cowardice of the parents) or "it is too big a job for me" or "someone else can should do it"or "what can I do on my own?"

But none of these justifications will be accepted by Christ. Because they are just fig leafs for egoism, selfishness and hardness of heart.

The real reason for cowardice in the face of evil is fear that a person has that they may suffer some hardship, deprivation or danger if they are courageous and speak out for others. 

Everyone else can be sacrificed, millions of lives, 100s of millions, countries destroyed. As long as they are okay. At least, for the next day, week, month. 

Heaven is not for the cowardly, the weak, the sick and the selfish.

Christ makes that clear.

And countries like America have no future unless they have courageous leaders, reporters.

There will be no MAGA with cowards, liars and murderers.

Solzhenitsyn warned the consequence of cowardly people, cowardly leaders like  Biden and Trump is disaster, the kind we now see unfolding in the USA and Europe from the covd jabs and censorship and which continues to unfold.

Solzhenitsyn in his lecture delivered at Harvard University in 1978. The entire lecture can be downloaded here. Here’s Solzhenitsyn on courage:

‘A decline in courage [. . .] may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society. Of course there are many courageous individuals but they have no determining influence on public life. Political and intellectual bureaucrats show depression, passivity and perplexity in their actions and in their statements and even more so in theoretical reflections to explain how realistic, reasonable as well as intellectually and even morally warranted it is to base state policies on weakness and cowardice. And decline in courage is ironically emphasized by occasional explosions of anger and inflexibility on the part of the same bureaucrats when dealing with weak governments and weak countries, not supported by anyone, or with currents which cannot offer any resistance. But they get tongue-tied and paralyzed when they deal with powerful governments and threatening forces, with aggressors and international terrorists. Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?’ – Alexander Solzhenitsyn, ‘A World Split Apart’ (A paper presented at the Harvard Class Day Afternoon Exercises, Harvard University, Thursday, 8 June, 1978).

So, if Trump and his associates want to know if they are going to hell based on their record, then the  answers is yes.

And the covid jab lies and the crimes against a reporter will feature very much at the top of the list of their failures.

They have a short time to change and show with their actions some courage before Christ himself will sweep them away as he did Biden and co

The cowards all know who they are. The whole world knows who they are, who did not speak out and does speak out to this day let alone do anything to stop the ongoing murder of a reporter also.

There has been zero repentance over their cowardice, selfishness and crimes in 2025. 

The public has rebelled and so the cowards have a tiny bit of courage.