Posted on 05/19/2024 6:50:41 AM PDT by Twotone
This powerful conversation with Bill Federer will expose the silence of the church through the history of Marxism - and convince you that even your silence is actually consent!
“Silence = consent”
So if you keep her silent it’s not rape?
Silence = self-defense is more accurate in today’s turmoil.
Loved his work “American Minute”.
Not funny. Kinda sick really. Who thinks of that?
But that’s how they’ve silenced us. By threatening...consequences. We cannot allow ourselves to be intimidated. If you’re God-fearing, Mr. Federer explains how God will not hold us blameless for all the immorality & evil in this world. Silence = consent. In other words, our approval.
“Not funny. Kinda sick really. Who thinks of that?”
Not supposed to be funny. “Who thinks of that” is someone who sees the fallacy and tries to point out for those who can think it through, that “silence=consent” is just as fallacious in this case as in the case of rape.
Voluntarily remaining silent and being violently forced into silence are very different.
Speaking of thinking things through, it’s too bad you thought bringing rape and violence into it was the best way of making your point.
Silence isn’t consent.
I don’t give a sh1t who says it is.
Well, you can take it up with God when you see him.
So you’re out on the street protesting everything you’re not happy with every day...got it. I’m sure whatever you’re doing there are people out there saying you’re just being silent.
No, I’m not protesting every day. But I write my congressmen & senators regularly, & others in authority. Being retired, I’m not out among people who are likely to hold opposing views. I’m mostly among friends with similar views. But I do try to speak out when I see a need. I could probably do more, I know.
In Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons (1960), Thomas More has refused to swear to the Act of Supremacy making Henry VIII Head of the Church of England. At his trial, Thomas Cromwell argues that everyone knows that his silence means denial. Thomas More quotes the maxim qui tacet consentire and translates it as "Silence gives consent"--pointing out that if they wish to construe his silence they must construe that he consented, not that he denied.
(The movie version is better known than the play.)
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