“Open discussion was the hallmark of the Enlightenment and the birth of the modern age, with a state that allows freedom of speech, press, and religion. That new era was grounded in the conviction that free discussions would allow what is true and right to triumph. The case was made by philosophy John Locke, who greatly influenced the Founders of America.
Moderns rejected the old way, that of suppressing certain ideas as dangerous, for example by burning heretics and their books. The new approach was to defeat their ideas. That approach depended on critical thinking born of education and enabled by a free press.
Sadly, we are going back to the old way where enlightened elites decide which ideas are too dangerous for people to hear. We are going back to burning heretics rather than persuading them.”
-Dr. Brian Morley
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