Here is one last-ditch attempt on the part of a few Christian groups to salvage freedom of speech in a day of social media mobs, corporate hate speech policies, blacklisting, cancel culture, and campus speech policing. The Philadelphia Statement is hoping for a return to civility, intelligent debate, thoughtful exchanges, and the First Amendment. We’ll see. . . . Kevin Swanson provides a bit more on the history of freedom. It turns out that Christians paved the way for freedom in the West — the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, etc. It is always non-Christians and anti-Christian apostates who broke down freedom in the Western world.