I’m not going to lie. Getting banned from all these social media channels has done wonders for my mental health. I think I had an unhealthy relationship with all of them.
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Now I’ve been banned from:
- TikTok
- Nextdoor
It’s becoming a bit of a game for me. I’m trying to see how many platforms I can get de-platformed from with the message of Radical Love.
Here’s what Nextdoor just told me:
I’m not going back there. It’s just a matter of time before they permanently ban me. I don’t need the stress of any of it.
My all-time favorite of this banning is over at Instagram. (They banned my charity account because it was owned by me.) This is what I see when I try to log into Instagram:
That sums it up perfectly . Sage Lewis: Doesn’t follow the rules.
That’s exactly right. Because I’ll tell you what the rules are: Agree with the Liberal position or go fuck yourself.
Conservatives, namely Donald Trump, have been screaming this for years. But now they are coming for the left.
Now, all sorts of people are getting erased.
This was in 2022:
That’s coming from Mr. Free-Speech, Elon Musk.
It is factually true that if you don’t agree with the party line, you are labeled someone who has presented “misinformation” (I have that warning on my YouTube channel), or you are making people feel unsafe. That is the free ticket to erase you, and if you are big enough the American government will come after the platform and pressure them to erase you.
The problem with radical love is that it requires understanding and compassion for everyone. And I mean EVERYONE.
I intentionally pull out the heavy hitters like pedophiles and Nazis as often as possible. If you can’t love and understand a pedophile or a Nazi and NOT JUDGE THEM, your Radical Love journey is not complete.
I am not saying that we must allow people with hateful or hurtful views to roam freely, killing and abusing people. That’s always the position of my detractors to get people to discount my message. What I am saying is that it is not our job to judge them. Our only job is to love, understand, and support them.
Racists and pedophiles live in our families and our communities. Furthermore, they are not doing anything that hasn’t been done since the beginning of humanity.
I’m just taking all this out of the Jesus playbook. He could not have been more clear about this fact.
He explicitly was saying that we had taken society as far as we could with eye-for-an-eye retribution justice. The only path forward for humanity is forgiveness and understanding. Quite literally, when people hurt you or steal from you, your only job is to give them more to hurt and steal. That’s the fact of the matter. That’s exactly what Jesus was saying, and no one wants to practice it.
This doesn’t play well in 21st century America, the most Christian country in the world.
“So you want me to understand and accept MAGA”?
That’s exactly right.
Racism is as human as sizzling meat over the campfire. It’s been instrumental in our survival.
Am I saying it’s right? Of course not. Am I saying it’s natural and has been a powerful survival tool for hundreds of thousands of years? Yes, yes I am.
And that’s why Conservatives are so worried about where the country is headed. What we have done up to this point has given us space travel (whitey’s on the moon), cures for all kinds of cancers (Black people suffer abysmally in the American health care system), and generational wealth (all stolen from Native Americans and Black people).
It’s complicated. It definitely has worked for some people. That’s a fact, Jack.
So, how can you hate someone who is doing something that is completely natural and normal and has worked really well (for some people) for keeping us alive and thriving for millennia? The core programming of ALL living things is to survive and propagate our own genes. It’s the prime directive of life and now you want us to rip that up? You may actually be causing the extinction of humanity with your feel good attitudes.
You have to be able to see how you could be wrong and how your enemy could be right. You have to do that. That’s the spiritual journey we all must pursue if we want any kind of peace, understanding, and salvation.
Who is the one being ignorant and small-minded in this situation?
But I say this stuff, and then some liberal writes to the platform and says, “Sage is making me feel unsafe.”
Then the platform reads over what I’m saying and sees that I’m not chanting the liberal party line, and then they ban me.
And then I ask: Who is acting totalitarian with a touch of fascism? (I don’t believe Donald Trump or the Democrats meet the definition of Fascist. But I throw that word in here because it’s a word Liberals like to tarnish Convervatives with. So I think it’s amusing to throw it back in their face.)
The message is simple: RADICAL LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING.
That is the only possible way forward for humanity. Old Testament Retribution feels great. But it’s killing us as a species. It’s a cancer of the heart.
I can see many of you practicing this love and understanding with homeless drug addicts. That’s not easy. They often are extremely frustrating and annoying. It’s so wonderful some of you can do that. Most people can’t.
But then I ask you to love and understand a pedophile (or even worse: A Conservative), and you freak out on me.
Of course, there is a very quiet but significant group of people who stand with me in this cause: the friends and family of pedophiles. They get it. They understand the complicated life situation of their loved one who did terrible things to children. Studies show that pedophiles are often born that way and/or were abused as children.
Lepors were Jesus’ pedophiles (probably because marrying and impregnating 12-year-old girls was common practice back then (that’s what God did to Mary, after all)). Jesus gave people the most hated people he could imagine and said: LOVE THESE PEOPLE.
Don’t judge. You are a piece of shit too. We all are.
I find it ironic and amusing that Radical Love makes people feel “unsafe.”
But I’ll tell you one thing: It doesn’t make the person who is being accepted and loved feel unsafe. They feel, often for the first time in a very long time, like someone cares about them and isn’t condemning them in the back of their mind. It makes you one of the greatest people to walk the face of the earth for that one person. And all the banning and de-platforming in the world is worth it. If you can make one unloved person feel loved it’s all worth it.
I love you,
Sage
P.S. I archived over 1400 posts, pictures, and videos from Facebook over here:
And I made an AI bot that includes all my podcasts, blog posts, Facebook posts and books here: Sage’s AI Archive Bot.You can ask it all sorts of crazy questions about me and my views.
I will not be erased. I am right about this.
S.