How censoring bad ideas threatens your freedom - AUTHENTIC with Shawn Boonstra

Are some ideas too dangerous to remain in circulation? There's a disturbing new trend where people think banning certain types of speech is not only OK, but the right thing to do. Shawn Boonstra talks about why that's actually a really bad idea.
Website: vop.com/authentic
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About Authentic:
Host Shawn Boonstra makes it easy to understand how philosophy and biblical principles can help you live an authentic life in the 21st century.
We talk about real existential questions-stuff that everybody wonders about: the meaning of life, purposeful living, the nature of human existence, the thoughts of great philosophers and how those have impacted our culture and how we live-the nature of love, relationships, emotions, self-awareness . . . But most of all, we explore what it means to live an authentic human existence.
New episodes on Saturdays. Watch on KZbin and a growing list of North American TV networks and stations.

[@kyrilascully7828]

Always challenging and thought-provoking. I need this in my life, but I find few pastors willing to challenge people any more. Thank God for ministers like Pastor Noel A. Rose in South Florida. He is a lot like Pastor Boonstra, and I learned so much from him - in fact I dedicated my newest book RAISE US FROM THE DEAD to him and the associate Pastor Ian Binns. Maybe it's a Jamaican thing, but they know their Bibles and know how to share it concisely, and simply, yet raise the bar of understanding the intelligence of their congregation.

[@mig-1578]

The only hope we truly have

[@loidaibarra983]

Excellent

[@unruffledduck]

This was excellent. Thank you for speaking directly to this with so much study behind it

[@virginiahinkley2348]

Thanks for sharing. I've been blessed.❤🙏

[@bruced6543]

The truth has a way of coming out, let those words be shouted loudly

[@kevinmorgan8782]

13:30 Shawn, should your phone calls be censored? The phone companies are private companies.

[@kathleenkrupa2935]

Please list the books you quote please.

[@dove196540]

What was title of the John Milton book

[@joaoadventistasilva4626]

the bible says:" Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!" John Boonstra says: Forget all of that. Well, he need the donations

[@Kay-tc3go]

I always thought the "star chamber" was fiction.

[@nikstersmith6771]

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🤙🏽🙏🏼

[@martinlohne5128]

So you believe "censoring bad ideas threatens your freedom"? Tell me brother, do you ever censor things you don't agree with?

[@eugenelombard960]

Censoring ideas do not solve problems. It creates animosity. If I don't like something I want the freedom to say so.

[@martinlohne5128]

@@eugenelombard960 I agree with you however Shawn doesn't practice what he preaches. At the time I'm posting this, according to KZbin, there have been nine comments to this thread and only six appear. That means three threads have been removed. On 3/6/21 Voice of Prophecy posted "The Will to Power | Authentic" on KZbin" which was about an infidel. Regarding said individual, Shawn said, “You can’t read his books and not notice how brilliant he is.” I posted the following quotation with no added commentary of my own. “Suffer not yourselves to open the lids of a book that is questionable. There is hellish fascination in the literature of Satan. It is the powerful battery by which he tears down a simple religious faith. Never feel that you are strong enough to read infidel books; for they contain a poison like that of asps.” Fundamentals of Christian Education page 93. By 3/9/21 my post had been removed. It would appear that Shawn was offended by the Lord's Messenger.

[@jamesleibensperger6489]

The Bible is clear we should ponder on whatever is pure, lonely , honest, just, etc., and we can share the importance of that message! The thing I understand is that our Creator God gave us free will, and we can share the treasures of the Holy Bible, but we cannot force anyone to follow them! Jesus is our example in all things , and would He have us violate the freedom if others , may we pray that the Holy Spirit speaks to us , and others on this principle of God's character! I believe that the second coming of Jesus is even at the door, and may you be found on the side our Heavenly Father calls you to! Maranatha!

[@eugenelombard960]

@@martinlohne5128 Thanks for your reply. I was not aware of the reason or circumstances why you posted your question. 👍

[@chesedwalnut3062]

@@martinlohne5128 Did the messenger of the Lord ever read infidel books? Did she ever see works of infidels?

[@CyanMonkeVR-oj8kj]

hewo