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Direct Answer Based on Bercot’s teaching, it looks like staying hopeful and steady while honestly admitting that social and legal attitudes can shift quickly—and that “strange” religious practices can become targets. It means preparing in advance, learning from others’ suffering, and not dismissing early warning signs just because they first affect groups we disagree with.

Support from Transcript:

• He cites Niemöller’s warning about staying silent as persecution expands: “Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.”
• He applies it: “what’s scary is that a lot of people think we kingdom Christians are strange too.”
• He raises specific “not inconceivable” possibilities: the state deciding head coverings or homeschooling are “against public policy,” and he notes “they banned head coverings in public schools in France.”
• He mentions the Iran/vitamin D article as an example of how modest dress could be framed as “harmful to girls,” potentially leading to an “edict against it.”
• He repeatedly cautions against complacency: “we should never think…‘Oh, this can’t happen to us because it can.’”