I live with it continuously, the "get me out of here" looks, the "let's change the subject" friends, the "how dare you say that" acquaintances; people call the truth "fearmongering."  How about this for fearmongering:

"When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, 'O generation of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?  Bring forth fruit of repentance" Matthew 3:7-8.  John the Baptist was speaking here to the religious leaders of his day,...
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