Recently, many people have been fired because of comments they made about the assassination of Charlie Kirk,

which kicked off a lot of debates about free speech and cancel culture. So in today's episode,

we're going to tackle the question, should Christians support cancel culture? But first,

another question we have to address, should Christians support the Council of Trent? Yes,

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Trenthornpodcast.com. All right, but first, we have to define cancel culture. And that's really

the source of the problem in this debate. While the phrase did not become popular until around

2017 and 2018, the seeds of cancel culture

were planted in the late 2000s and early 2010s through the rise of social media like

Twitter and YouTube. These platforms allowed large groups of people to quickly descend on a single

company or a single individual and expose them to massive amounts of criticism.

Some of it deserved. For example, in 2012, CFO Adam Smith of an Arizona biotech

company filmed himself harassing a Chick-fil-A drive-thru worker because the Chick-fil-A CEO had

donated money to defend traditional marriage. Ironically, Smith wanted to be part of a campaign to cancel

Chick-fil-A over so-called same-sex marriage, but instead he got himself canceled or fired

for taking out his frustrations on a drive-through worker who had nothing to do with Chick-fil-A's policies.

But in other cases, the cancellation seems to be rooted in vengeance and a desire to inflict maximal harm,

not justice meant to correct someone who engaged in wrongdoing. In 2013, Justine Sacco tweeted,

Going to Africa, hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding, I'm white, before boarding an 11-hour flight.

By the time she landed, her tweet to less than 200 followers had gone viral, and she lost her job.

Tech journalist Sam Biddle, who helped to make the tweet go viral, later apologized, saying,

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