A good morning to you from Kris and me, wherever we might be! Kris and I are with Northern Seminary students on our way for a tour of Israel. The protocols for travel have kept us busy. To get on the plane requires being cleared for a Covid test within 72 hours of departure, but our pharmacy couldn’t promise return within 72 hours. Whew, we got cleared about 35 hours after our test.
Mar 27, 2022·edited Mar 27, 2022Liked by Scot McKnight
The issue of the loss, or at least the potential loss of freedom of speech is a very big one. As a South African abroad who grew up under apartheid I fell like 'I have seen this all before.' Even as it related to the more conspiratorial and even 'outragious' claims by some regarding the pandemic. Why ban them? Why muzzle and silence and censor the alternative narrative? If you believe it's as outragious as you say it is then bring it into the public forum where it can be debated and throroughly discredited in public debate. When a group of doctors, virologists and epidemiologists (Barrington declaration) are silenced as kooks, idiots and nutters, it only adds fuel to the fires of the more speculative theories. Banning, censorship and burning has never resolved anything. Have we not learned from history at all? As a non party political person, the extemism I'm seeing from both the left and right frightens me in pretty equal proportion. Christos Kurios...
The issue of the loss, or at least the potential loss of freedom of speech is a very big one. As a South African abroad who grew up under apartheid I fell like 'I have seen this all before.' Even as it related to the more conspiratorial and even 'outragious' claims by some regarding the pandemic. Why ban them? Why muzzle and silence and censor the alternative narrative? If you believe it's as outragious as you say it is then bring it into the public forum where it can be debated and throroughly discredited in public debate. When a group of doctors, virologists and epidemiologists (Barrington declaration) are silenced as kooks, idiots and nutters, it only adds fuel to the fires of the more speculative theories. Banning, censorship and burning has never resolved anything. Have we not learned from history at all? As a non party political person, the extemism I'm seeing from both the left and right frightens me in pretty equal proportion. Christos Kurios...