"Facebook Bans Augustine's 'Sin' Quote / Robotic Umpires for Baseball?"

Some very good friends have sent me links recently which I'd like to comment on.  Here goes.

First, PETER sent me this link about the most recent example of FACEBOOK CENSORSHIP...

https://www.wnd.com/2019/07/facebook-bans-quote-from-revered-christian-hero/

My response: I have to say first of all that the TITLE of this piece, in my opinion, is inaccurate.  Having just taught an 18 week Sunday School class about Roman Catholicism and the ways it DIFFERS from Biblical Christianity, I, personally, would not address "St. Augustine" as a "Christian hero." Nor would I even call him "Saint Augustine" because the Roman Catholic version of what a "Saint" is is totally different than what THE BIBLE says!! I'd elaborate more but frankly, it takes a lot of explaining and I'm converting my Sunday School material into a book I'm self-publishing...I'm kind of weary of explaining these things at the moment. And besides, I want to get to the POINT (Lol)!!

So here we go. Clearly, if you read the link and examine Augustine's EXCELLENT quote, which I agree with 100%, Facebook is offended by the word "SIN."

"Sin" IS a Biblical word, and Augustine's quote is Biblically sound and RIGHT ON...so why is Facebook CENSORING it?? My guess is that they are calling the word "Sin" an expression of "Hate Speech" to protect the LGBTQs from ever having it said of their behavior, this way they (the LGBTQs) can fire back and "neutralize"the force of it by saying it's "Hate Speech." I, personally, took the quote to heart that *I* need to make sure *I* don't cover MY sin by overly focusing on others!! And, sometimes people DO use "Hate Speech" towards that group but to call their behavior "sin" is NOT "Hate Speech." I don't have THAT sin but I have OTHER sins...we ALL have sin, according to the Bible. The head honchos at Facebook clearly have the sin of SUPPRESSING GOD'S WORDS because "Sin" is a word found COUNTLESS times in the Bible.  (Maybe they should censor words like CURSES that are NOT in Scripture??) Anyway, that's my take on this issue.








Then, my good friend JOHN sent me a link several weeks ago...I gave him my opinion when we subsequently talked on the phone and now I'd like to (finally) WRITE about it.  Here's a SERIES of  links, they all regard the debut of ROBOTIC UMPIRES....

https://www.google.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fmlb%2F2019%2F07%2F11%2Fmlb-trackman-system-makes-history-calls-balls-and-strikes-pro-game%2F1rts%2Fmlb%2F2019%2F07%2F11%2Fmlb-trackman-system

My response is ROBOTIC UMPIRES are definitely the wave of the future, but it removes the human element  from the game and I regret that.  On the other hand, since the advent of the Instant Replay, when you see how many calls the HUMAN umpires have blown, it's astounding!!

And we all know that human umps have made big mistakes in BIG games...the '85 World Series was blown on a bad call by an umpire.  And the Yanks-Orioles playoffs in '96 were DEFINITELY influenced by an umpire's "mistaken" call (though, frankly, if an Orioles' player hadn't LITERALLY spit in an ump's face BEFORE that series, the call might have gone the ORIOLE'S way!!)

UMPIRES ARE PEOPLE, TOO....at least for the time being, Lol!! But Robotic Umpires will STILL make mistakes because they'll have to be programmed by HUMANS.  Why, just the other day, I heard that former Major League pitcher FRANK VIOLA was arguing  balls and strikes with a Robotic Ump, Lol!! Anyway, thank you John and Pete for sending me those links...much appreciated!!