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"Canada’s Spiritual War” - Bible ‘Hate Speech’ Ruling SPARKS Backlash

04 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: What controversial proposal is being discussed in Canada regarding the Bible?

0.031 - 16.165 Patrick Bet-David

Canada just, in 2025, I want to say October, maybe even earlier than that, a couple guys, this guy right here, they started working on saying some of the stuff in the Bible is hate speech. Okay? Truly. Some of the stuff in the Bible is hate speech. And here's what he had to say. Go for it, Rob.

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16.586 - 35.793 Rob

In this case, the Bible, but there are other religious texts that say the same thing. And somehow say that this is good faith. I mean, clearly there are situations in these texts where these statements are hateful. They should not be used in the Bible or be a defense. And there should perhaps be discretion for prosecutors to press charges.

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35.813 - 40.299 Rob

I just want to understand what your notion of good faith is in this context where there are clearly.

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40.84 - 46.196 Ilan Omar

Yeah. When you have a country without a constitution, this is what happens. I mean, they don't have the First Amendment.

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46.217 - 47.839 Patrick Bet-David

Let me read this to you, and then I'm going to come to you.

Chapter 2: How do the panelists define hate speech in religious texts?

47.859 - 67.264 Patrick Bet-David

Let me read this to you, and I'm going to come to you. So you're hearing this, okay? So here we go. Canada wants to make quoting the Bible illegal. This is The Spectator, two days ago. Easter's almost here, and Canada's liberal government has chosen the sacred season to displace utter contempt for Christianity. It's currently forcing through...

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67.244 - 82.709 Patrick Bet-David

the outrageous Bill C-9, which could make it a hate crime to quote from the sections of the Bible. More than 40 civil and religious groups have asked that for the bill's language be clarified and its scope more carefully defined so that religious texts would not be subject to hate crime legislation.

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82.809 - 101.504 Patrick Bet-David

But all in vain, after a hot debate in the House of Commons, the liberals high-handedly ended a conservative filibuster, in fact, Fast-track the bill. It's now been sent to the Senate to decide if Canada is the kind of a country that wants to turn quoting St. Paul into a criminal act. Ilan.

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102.385 - 117.777 Ilan Omar

Yeah, again, Canada doesn't have – they have a Bill of Rights, but they don't have the First Amendment in the way we do. I think – you look at Canada during COVID, they were going after churches like crazy. And again, I think this is bigger than politics. I think it's spiritual. I think that Canada has an attack on truth across the board.

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118.077 - 134.106 Ilan Omar

The world is seeing an attack on truth across the board. Tom has been touching on it. And I think it's a spiritual war. If you can destroy the idea of gender, if you can destroy the idea of man having value, woman having value, the sanctity of a child –

134.086 - 151.802 Ilan Omar

when you think about how out of control abortion is, all these things, and now they're attacking the very scripture that's meant to be spread to protect against those evils. They're doing it for a reason. And that's the thing I fear most in the world. And I think people are met now with a binary. Anyone watching, you're met with a binary choice now.

151.822 - 167.837 Ilan Omar

You're either going to go down the path of moral relativism, which will lead you to nihilism, a complete destruction of truth, and it will leave you in a void that is empty, a dark void. It will lead to depression. We're seeing it. It will lead to anxiety. It'll lead to all the nihilistic behavior we're seeing, or you will head to a path of truth.

167.857 - 186.459 Ilan Omar

And I think the only light I see in all of this is because of these blatant open attacks on Christianity that we're not only seeing in Canada, we've even seen it in our own country. They've gone after churches in our own country. And I think the only benefit to all this is that as that becomes so binary, you really do have a choice. The choice is presented to you by God now.

186.699 - 188.521 Ilan Omar

You will either follow me or you will follow that.

Chapter 3: What implications does Bill C-9 have for religious freedom in Canada?

230.306 - 245.346 Ilan Omar

I was sitting there and I started crying. I'm like, why am I crying here? Like, what is going on with me? What is the thing that's happening to me that's making me cry? And I realized I've been carrying this burden. You talk about it's not me, it's not me, it's not me. I've been carrying this burden my whole life that it's me, it's me, it's me.

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245.326 - 264.862 Ilan Omar

And I finally found a home where I was like, wow, this burden, this relationship with something bigger than myself can finally be shared. And I tell everyone this. There is nothing other than Christianity that will cure alcoholism. There's nothing other than Christianity that will truly clear your depression or whatever you're going through.

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265.122 - 277.71 Ilan Omar

Because it's a relationship with something bigger than yourself that you can take off yourself. and put there. And yeah, it's been tremendous for me. I had a friend who, sorry, not to go on for a long time, but I had a friend who was like, what do you mean you believe in this now? What's going on?

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277.73 - 293.917 Ilan Omar

Because when you're raised Jewish, it's very hard for people to hear that you're also doing something like that. And my Jewish identity is still important to me. But I said it makes me a better person. So I don't care what anyone tells me. I don't care what anyone believes about me. It makes me a better person, and that's all that matters. I love it. Good for you.

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294.097 - 295.178 Ilan Omar

Adam, your thoughts on that story?

295.198 - 316.45 Adam Sosnick

I love your story, and I wish that more stories like that were shared. I think that Judaism and Christianity has a bond that should be unbreakable. Without the Old Testament, there's no New Testament. And look, the Crusades were fought between the Christians and the Muslims, and the Jews were always in the middle because they were always fighting over Jerusalem. Jerusalem.

Chapter 4: How does the lack of a First Amendment affect Canada’s legal landscape?

316.83 - 337.103 Adam Sosnick

For anybody that has a problem with the Jews being in Jerusalem, it's in the name. Judea, Jerusalem. The Bible is the greatest book of all time. It's the old version and the new version, whatever version you subscribe to. That book is the most important book other than maybe the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution. We are here in America. I love what you have to say.

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337.463 - 358.526 Adam Sosnick

I wish more people said that. Jesus was, if not the greatest, one of the greatest people of all time to walk to earth. I get in arguments with my Jewish friends. I say, why don't you have a little more respect for Jesus? They go, I don't believe he was God. I said, that doesn't mean you shouldn't have respect for him. He was a Jewish rabbi who hung out with only Jewish people.

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359.207 - 366.017 Adam Sosnick

His mother Jewish, father Jewish, all the wives, everyone around him was Jewish. He was questioning authority, questioning establishment.

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366.277 - 371.084 Unknown

Well, his father wasn't Jewish. But go ahead. Go ahead. Finish.

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Chapter 5: What is the spiritual significance of the current cultural battles?

371.124 - 371.565 Unknown

I'm sorry.

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372.526 - 394.357 Adam Sosnick

Don't pull a Tom right now. The reality is we need to work closer together because we're better together than we are apart. There's a crazy segment of the world that some people don't want to name, and that crazy segment of the world, whether it's 1% or 2%, it's millions of people, and that is called radical Islam. The story started out with Nigeria, did it not? What's going on in Nigeria?

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394.417 - 399.66 Adam Sosnick

I didn't even know this story. Didn't Trump bomb Nigeria a couple months ago? Did he not?

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400.301 - 406.547 Unknown

Didn't you have a shirt? He didn't bomb. He sent troops. I thought that they sent troops. Yeah, they said they're sending ground troops.

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407.268 - 414.916 Adam Sosnick

But I thought he did do something in Nigeria. Genuine question. Don't come at me. Why should we care about Nigeria as Americans?

415.456 - 415.837 Unknown

What do you mean?

416.097 - 418.499 Adam Sosnick

Why should we care about Nigeria? There's so much going on in the world.

419.04 - 430.737 Unknown

Iran, Gaza, Israel, Sudan, Haiti. No, I'm asking. Because these are defenseless... Christians that are just in churches praying to... Hold on.

430.797 - 431.799 Rob

You asked me. Let me finish.

Chapter 6: How do personal experiences shape beliefs about faith and truth?

563.185 - 572.599 Patrick Bet-David

If you actually think about it, it truly leads to having a leak. Like, the guys are like, yeah, you know, Israel, Gaza, Palestine, it's not fair what they're doing. Israel's doing a genocide. But they're quiet about Iran.

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572.9 - 573.2 Adam Sosnick

Oh, yeah.

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573.36 - 582.177 Patrick Bet-David

And the Christians are sometimes, yeah, Iran, we got to... And it's like... but quite about Gaza. It's a very, very valid argument. Ilan, I wonder what you're going to say here yourself.

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582.197 - 596.217 Ilan Omar

Well, what I was going to say is there are certain just unfortunate realities. The threat from Iran to our ground troops is significantly, and the long-term consequences of a ground invasion in Iran and how long it would take and everything. is fundamentally different than Fulani tribes.

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596.918 - 605.807 Ilan Omar

So you have to also look at, you know, how hard is it to solve the problem and protect people versus the benefits? So it's a cost benefit thing.

606.127 - 621.642 Ilan Omar

It's not to say that, you know, when there were 30, 40,000 people being massacred in Iran during the uprising that happened, I would say that at that exact moment, if people were making the argument, this is an ending, we need to get boots on the ground, we need to cut this off before millions of people potentially die.

621.622 - 638.185 Ilan Omar

You have an argument there, but what's happening in Nigeria is just a long-standing, continued massacre of people based on their religion. And you either look at the United States and you go, we're 100% isolationist. We have no reason to be involved. Or you look at the United States kind of like a superhero, and you say, look, we're superheroes.

638.205 - 649.82 Ilan Omar

We do have an obligation in the world to do what's right sometimes, even if it's hard. So Nigeria is a place where we can go in with a high benefit to cost. compared to Iran, at first, as a starting point.

649.84 - 659.589 Ilan Omar

That doesn't mean, I'm not saying police the world, but I'm saying when there's something like the genocide we see in Nigeria, there should be some controlled involvement to protect them over there.

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