Instagram is now banning traditional Christian teaching as HATE SPEECH – but it’s not what you think…

Move over Facebook and Twitter.

Instagram is now getting in on the action of censoring Christians when it doesn’t agree with them – even calling traditional Christian teaching ‘hate speech’.

PJ Media noted today that Christian group Founders Ministry had a post removed a few days ago because it was deemed as ‘hate speech’ but the authoritarians that run the social media platform.

Just what exactly was so offensive to them? No, it wasn’t about homosexuality. But that would have been my first guess too.

It’s about women being pastors. Or more specifically, why the Bible says they shouldn’t be pastors:

After Founders Ministry posted a screenshot on Instagram of an article published on their blog titled “Only Men Can Be Pastors,” Instagram deleted the post and labeled it “hate speech.”

As a way to help promote their articles, Founders Ministry utilizes their social media accounts. The accompanying caption with the Instagram screenshot said, “In spite of the fact that it seems more and more fashionable in our day to say that women may be pastors, the Bible is clear that pastoral leadership is restricted to men.”

The article, written by Tom Hicks, goes on to exegete 1 Timothy 2:12-14 in which Paul instructs his protégé Timothy, “I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.”

Here’s the screenshot of his post being banned by Instagram:

I would say this is ridiculous, but I’m afraid I’d be sounding like a broken record because so much is ridiculous in this new world of social media. Louis Farrakhan can spout all the actual hate speech he choses about Jews being termites and social media gives him a pass. But tell people that the Bible says women shouldn’t be pastors and you’ve crossed the line.

Just wait until Instagram finds out that the Bible says homosexuality is a sin!


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