Remember Maldon, Thermopylae, Vienna, Lepanto

Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre,
Mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað.

Two lines from the Old English poem The Battle of Maldon, uttered when the English realise that the Danes will win. Translates as:

Courage must be firmer, heart the keener,
Mind the greater, as our strength grows less.

We must remember the courage and resolve of our spiritual ancestors who spilled their blood defending their country from the heathen Danes. We must remember the Greeks who died at Thermopylae, preserving civilisation from Persian barbarity. We must emuate the Austrians and Poles at Vienna, the Christian forces at Lepanto, but with the voice and pen, not with the sword.

We are not asked to shed our blood, but only our tact and sensitivity. Our weapons are voice, pen, and pixel. Our enemy is not a race of heroic barbarians, but coteries of slimy equivocating wordsmiths who seek to destroy Christian values by manipulating and corrupting belief through their manipulation and corruption of language.

We must speak, write, and go down fighting.