This is going to be very short. My thesis is that the tendency to try to tiptoe around the sensitivities of people will not work.

It will not work because there are systems of theology and philosophy that are antithetical to each other, and Hegel got it wrong. There is no synthesis: there is just antithesis.

Consider the following.

Orthodox Serb: “There is but one way to be saved, and that is through Jesus, who is God incarnate and his church, which is empowered by the Holy Spirit”
Igor the Bosniak: “Allah is the only God, and his prophet is Mohammet, and your Jesus is but a prophet that points to him

“Academic freedom is declining. The belief that free speech rights don’t include the right to speak offensively is now firmly entrenched on campuses and enforced by repressive speech or harassment codes. Campus censors don’t generally riot in response to presumptively offensive speech, but they do steal newspapers containing articles they don’t like, vandalize displays they find offensive, and disrupt speeches they’d rather not hear. They insist that hate speech isn’t free speech and that people who indulge in it should be punished. No one should be surprised when a professor at an elite university calls for the arrest of ‘Sam Bacile’ [who made the YouTube video The Innocence of Muslims] while simultaneously claiming to value the First Amendment.”

On today’s campuses, left-leaning administrators, professors, and students are working overtime in their campaign of silencing dissent, and their unofficial tactics of ostracizing, smearing, and humiliation are highly effective. But what is even more chilling—and more far reaching—is the official power they abuse to ensure the silencing of views they don’t like. They’ve invented a labyrinth of anti-free speech tools that include “speech codes,” “free speech zones,” censorship, investigations by campus “diversity and tolerance offices,” and denial of due process. They craft “anti-harassment policies” and “anti-violence policies” that are speech codes in disguise.

What the petunias (which will soon be counted as a hate crime word) forget is that these disagreements are not a matter of politeness, but of faith, salvation, blood and fire. The Islamist considers that his religion spreads by war, and conquering infidels is a duty, or he does not take his faith seriously. The Christian believes the gospel should be preached to all people or the commands of his saviour he ignores.

And to say that we will mature out of this into some kind of anodyne politeness, with the form or religion, is to deny the power of religion. It is to hate those with faith. (Which to the leftist, is, of course, acceptable).

Let there be freedom of speech. It is far better to argue with words than bullets. And we are not children nor should we be childlike: our faith we should be able to defend.

Finally, to both the Leftist and the Islamist I say this: brothers and sisters, your sins will bear witness against you and damn you unless you turn to the cross. There is but one way to salvation, and that is through Christ. Leave the path you are following. Do not consider this crimethink.

Change, and follow Christ