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Do you take what comedians say the same as what serious people say? I don't.

Unless I've misunderstood our friend Ignatius, I believe the point was more along the lines of shouldn't both either be allowed to say such things or both be punished, rather than how it is now where only one is 'hate speech' or whatever, while the other is hilarious political satire to be enjoyed restriction-free? (Note: I know nothing of any of these people, since I don't have TV and don't watch political YouTube channels; I've heard the name Stephen Crowder before, but I assumed he was the internet version of a radio shock jock, and hence have avoided watching anything he has done, since I don't like that kind of thing.)
 
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Nothing wrong with being biased against hate speech.

Or envy speech, which is a form of hate. Or lustful speech. Or proud speech. Or lazy speech. Or any other of the Seven Deadly sins. We should probably ban pride rainbows, since pride is the most evil of all of them.

We should also ban violent games and movies. Hate speech begets hate as much as violent speech begets violence. Sorry Avengers, Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman, you gotta go -- it's your fault we have school shootings.

One more thing: anyone with a conscience knows the opposite of love isn't hate, it's apathy. We should definitely treat insufficient caring speech ad AT LEAST as harmful as hate speech.
 
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Or envy speech, which is a form of hate. Or lustful speech. Or proud speech. Or lazy speech. Or any other of the Seven Deadly sins. We should probably ban pride rainbows, since pride is the most evil of all of them.

We should also bee violent games and movies. Hate speech begets hate as much as violent speech begets violence. Sorry Avengers, Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman, you gotta go -- it's your fault we have school shootings
If racists , sexists and homophobes wouldn’t verbally and emotionally abuse people under the guise of religion (or not.), this wouldn't be necessary . They also egg on stupid weak people to commit these abuses. I’m in favor of banning them because they just won’t live and let live
 
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If racists , sexists and homophobes wouldn’t verbally and emotionally abuse people under the guise of religion (or not.), this wouldn't be necessary . They also egg on stupid weak people to commit these abuses. I’m in favor of banning them because they just won’t live and let live
You're straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel there. It wouldn't be a problem if we didn't permit violent speech like in movies and video games. Hate, wrath, envy all you want. Without the violence all problems become more manageable. We should ban movies, games, and books that depict violence because violent expression begets viilence. I'm sure we can agree on that.
 
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Something needs to be done. The frantic drive to far right wing is tearing Christianity away from its true roots.

... The “right wingers” I know oppose things like abortion and sexual immorality, are they driving us away from it’s true roots?
 
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Why does that not apply to the Cardinal Sins? I think it's worth pointing out that envy is a form of hate based in insecurity; I don't see anyone going after Envy Speech, which tells me this is all a big dog and pony show.
I was unaware that a cardinal sin was dependant on the others to be valid.
 
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The american people deserve more than political Kool Aid.
Either we have free speech and freedom of the press, or we have state controlled media. There is no way to force media to be unbiased.
 
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This policy may be used to oppose hate content that defames Christians.

Some are concerned about neo-Nazis and other hate groups identifying themselves as Christians leading to misunderstanding about who Christians are.
And you really suppose that the people at YouTube actually responsible for filtering content are concerned about Christians or the Christian worldview being misrepresented? Youtube is in fact currently demonetizing right-leaning content that should not be demonitized.
 
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If one can't express Christianity without resorting to division and hate, maybe public discourse isn't a worthy pursuit for that person. Lord have mercy on me, the sinner.

From this morning's "inbox"
"The graceful speech of a Christian is characterized by delicateness and politeness.
This fact, born of love, produces peace and joy.
On the other hand, boorishness gives birth to hatred, enmity, affliction, competitiveness, disorder and wars."
- Saint Nektarios of Aegina
Division between the truth and a lie is inherent in the Gospel message.
 
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If racists , sexists and homophobes wouldn’t verbally and emotionally abuse people under the guise of religion (or not.), this wouldn't be necessary . They also egg on stupid weak people to commit these abuses. I’m in favor of banning them because they just won’t live and let live
The social media giants' foolishness in their ongoing biased censorship is stirring up interest in changing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. They are too blind to understand that the public will only tolerate so much of their Left-leaning activism and abuse of power. Consider that you might be indirectly supporting such possible change by supporting Youtube's current censorship practices.
 
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The social media giants' foolishness in their ongoing biased censorship is stirring up interest in changing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Accusations of Big Company favoritism is on the table as well.

 
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Either we have free speech and freedom of the press, or we have state controlled media. There is no way to force media to be unbiased.
I do think the public can do a better job of keeping the media honest, though. We should not support biased journalism. This requires significant cultural change but the Fourth Estate should serve without fear or favour.
 
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Division between the truth and a lie is inherent in the Gospel message.
Yes, but American politics, conservative or otherwise, is not the Gospel. Ridiculing someone for their race/heritage is not part of the gospel. Encouraging harassment is not the gospel. I would say that mocking someone for their sin, whatever it is, is not part of the gospel. One's ability to make money from those pursuits has nothing to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ either (source).
 
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What are you responding to? Not the OP, certainly.

Yes the OP.

The fact people are trying to spin the reality to the narrative that fits their persecution complex doesn't change the facts.
 
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Hi and thanks for commenting.

There is nothing in Scripture predicting some kind of progressive, worldwide, inevitable moral decline prior to the 1 Thess. 4:17 Rapture. The moral landscape of the nations do not have to decline prior to that event--if Christians will stop with the idea that such decline is inevitable and get busy with being the Salt and Light of the earth through prayer and other means. Such is evidenced by the Great Awakenings that have occurred in the US and in Europe and other great societal moral turn-arounds that have occurred, such as under John Wesley. For goodness sake, the entire north american continent was evangelized, does that sound like inevitable moral decline to you? As soon as you discard such an erroneous eschatological presumption, the sooner your faith and ambition for positive change will skyrocket.

We had a conservative-majority win in 2016, does that sound like inevitable moral decline to you?

We must be careful as to the effect of any eschatological model we affirm.

I apologize if I have misunderstood what you meant.

No one is saying not to be the salt and light of the earth. Regardless of the level of moral decay our societies are in, we should remain diligent in our relationship with God and in following his word. Be careful about accusing others of being nihilists because of their views on the end times. My faith and ambition in Christ is not reliant upon the current or future state of the world. I'll not get into the rapture debate but regardless of you view on this, do you think the world will be in a state of this great awakening and then, POOF, everyone's following the Anti-Christ? No, the world must decline to that point over time. Using the great awakening during John Wesley's time is a perfect example actually. He lived in the 1700's. Compare that to today. Britain was somewhere in the lower 90% Christian already. The rest of Europe was probably somewhere around that. We had entire Christian continents and empires. Can you say that about today? A previous sitting U.S. President stated in front of the world that we are no longer a Christian nation. Members of our own congress have argued that Christians should not be able to hold public office because they say Muslims will go to Hell unless they accept Jesus as the Christ. Also, if you think Donald Trumps election is some sort of great awakening, it is, but to nationalism, not to Jesus. Being a conservative doesn't make you a Christian. Even if it did, Trump lost the popular vote, so America would STILL be less than have Christian. Again, I'm not promoting nihilism. It's a great time to go out and lay up treasure in Heaven by preaching and teaching the good news to a world in decline, but I'm not going to deny the world declining, and fast at that.
 
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Shouldn't it be perversity activists and perversity speech that are banned and non grata?
not sure what you meant . The preacher I talked about proposed killing and abusing gays . I’ll repeat. He deserved to be made persona non grata
 
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