Should Christians be arrested when they violate the rule "Don't speak until you are spoken to"?

Governments in the free world pay some attention to the content of speech. For example, incitement to violence, threats, and defamation. However, most questions about the content of speech are ignored by governments in the free world. It's simply too complicated to try to determine who is right and who is wrong.

If communication elicits doctrinal conflict that escalates into physical violence, then the solution is not to analyze the communication and determine what is doctrinally correct. The solution is to prevent the communication.

Given that Jesus was crucified, it's obvious that people had complaints about him. When a number of people make complaints about a single individual, a management professional will identify the individual as the problem. The solution would be to ban him from striking up conversations. Similarly, his followers would be banned from striking up conversations.

be arrested when they violate the rule, "Don't speak until you are spoken to."

Sure it is easy to censor, and you might solve some problems, but then the censors go bad and do so only for there themselves.

Same thing with totalitarianism, it starts with good ideas, but soon becomes terribly corrupt, why democracy works better.

There is a reason that freedom of expression, and a free press is suppose to be part of the democratic package, becuase they have some of the same functions.

Tougher to do, harder to manage, but they stop much worse situations.

Don't join the darkside, and censoring is really easy, as is a dictatorship, and that has been said by a few democratic leaders that either understand, or don't.

But moving to censorship and totalitarianism is not better for anyone, becuase they are not sustainable in any form.


And people know that, hence why those systems also have to use deception and secrecy, till it gets so bad they get caught and then the implosion begins, although I think it can be corrected before implosion.

Although I am due beer and travel money, and that has not yet arrived.

that was one of the dumbest and meanest for that matter, posts I've seen on DU. Why don't you just tell us all how you really feel, m'dear?

By the way, exactly who made the "Don't speak until you are spoken to" a rule of Christians? Did I misunderstand you because that just really doesn't make sense imho. Everyone has their faults. Why do you single out Christians and Jesus?

communication it is to charge the offender with battery.

"Some attention" is hardly a right.

There are some people I do not want to speak to or want them speaking to me. George W Bush is one of those people. I don't like war criminals.

- It's "children should not speak until spoken to" and it has nothing to do with Christianity or any other religion. It was a widely accepted opinion during the Victorian era and before when children were "seen and not heard".

LOL!

But Jesus called them , and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

then I read the OP's username.

"The solution is to prevent the communication."

Exactly how oppressive governments do it.