A Paramount Issue of the 2020s

There are many priorities this decade that demand our attention and prayers. Fulfilling the Great Commission has remained God’s paramount priority for the past 2000 years because it’s the command of Jesus that will bring the greatest good to the planet–now and in eternity.

We could also list issues like abortion–the great sin of shedding innocent blood (Proverbs 6:17). This quiet slaughter of over one billion innocent children worldwide in the past three generations certainly qualifies as paramount in the eyes of God.

But I’m thinking of another problem I never saw coming in the United States and world until just a few years ago. This issue may greatly impact the other two. 

The silencing of free speech.

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Verbal Fascism

I remember vividly the cultural turmoil of the 1960’s highlighting the importance of free speech at the U.C.-Berkeley and other campuses. Though I strongly rejected the youth rebellion and its focus on drugs, free sex, and hatred of the police, I agreed with one tenet.

Free speech.

It stood enshrined in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights and seemed as American as apple pie. I thought the radicals simply wanted equal time. That’s fair in a free society.

I was wrong.

Those same radicals now control many of the leadership positions in government, the media and higher education in the United States. We now know what they wanted all along.

Control. And how do you gain it?

Verbal Fascism.

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Why Free Speech in the 60s is Being Banned This Century

Some of us are old enough to remember the “free speech movement” of the 1960s. It featured bully pulpits on the Berkeley, California campus (and many other universities) that championed the right to say what you please. The leaders of the movement proclaimed the “right to free speech.”

That’s a good thing. Freedom of speech is paramount in our Constitution based on the inalienable rights that God gives each human being.

The free speech movement took place during the height of the Vietnam conflict, the hippie culture. and the overall youth free love/sexual revolution. The young dreamers demanded their right to speak out. They said that “freedom” was the issue.

But today’s generation is actively squelching free speech–at Berkeley and many other bastions of education.

Why was free speech sacred in the 60s but now banned by the same people this century? Read More