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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
So why does all this matter?
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
Well, it is competition of ideas.
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
And remember, in medieval times, all political ideas are really offshoots of religious ideas.
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
And the core Protestant idea at this time is that you have a personal relationship with God.
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
You discover who he is.
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
in your personal journey and you have, to use a horrible modern phrase, your truth.
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
And no one, and by the way, that's where that idea comes from.
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
And no one should be able, in the Protestant perspective, no one should be able to interfere in your exploration.
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
And part of your exploration is talking about it and thinking about it and reading about it.
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
So in this great, in these religious wars and this desire for social peace and just,
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
you know, you guys go worship over here, and we'll worship here, and these third guys will go worship over there, is this idea that free speech is necessary for social peace.
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
Let everyone have their say, let the ideas move up and down the Rhine about religion, but also increasingly about politics, about economics.
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
And believe it or not, we owe this
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
initial idea of free speech which is essential to the creation of news to these very tough-minded german protestants who were stubbornly insisting they were right and everyone else was wrong and also their great desire to make money and capitalism which is a lot like
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
you have an individual relationship with God is that you have the right to an individual relationship with your customers and your employees.
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
You can choose who to hire and fire.
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
There are no hereditary employees.
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
It's governed by contract.
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
And you have a right to sell to your customers as they, if they choose you and you choose them, that's it.
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The Best Conversation About News, Opinion and Censorship You've Ever Heard - Richard Miniter
That's all that matters.