We face the difficult task of rebuilding a society based on consent within the dangerous crumbling shell of a society built on coercion.

Corporations and governments figuratively and often literally conspire against us. Our choices are often constrained such that failure to comply is "illegal," but if there is no victim, there is no crime, and many a "legal" thing is criminal because government is organized crime.

Freedom requires virtue, personal responsibility, respect for others, and a degree of risk. Some abuse that. This comment will likely receive one or more replies from negative-reputation accounts owned by a person who has chosen not to embrace such virtue.

A couple notes about your post:

I recommend crediting every image you did not draw or photograph, including AI-generated images. Something simple like, "image downloaded from Pixabay/Unsplash/etc," or, "AI-generated images by OpenAI/Bing/etc" is usually considered sufficient. Adding a hyperlink is a nice touch.

Jeremy Camp is a name I have not heard in a long while. Are you a CCM listener in general?