When TikTok refused to promote a video titled The Key to the Christian Life: Mastery of the Self, the reason they gave was telling. The content, they said, was “politically and religiously sensitive.”

In a digital world saturated with confusion, vulgarity, and ideological chaos, this is what gets flagged: a calm, reasoned presentation about virtue, discipline, and the Ten Commandments. A message calling people to personal holiness. A talk urging people to become what God made them to be.

That’s the threat now.

And that tells us something very important: we are over the target.

The Gospel Is Always a Threat to Lies

What TikTok—and much of the modern world—fears is not religion as such. Plenty of saccharine, vague spirituality makes it through the algorithmic filters. What they fear is conviction. Clarity. The idea that some things are true and others are not. That some actions lead to life and others to death. That holiness is not only real—but demanded.

They fear what the world has always feared: the Gospel in full. The Gospel that says repent. That says deny yourself. That says be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

To a culture built on indulgence, that is subversive.

To a society that calls vice “freedom,” a call to self-mastery is intolerable.

This Is Not a Bug—It’s a Feature

We do not complain about this rejection. We highlight it. We name it. We use it.

Because when a platform that promotes every imaginable vice decides that virtue is the problem, it reveals more about the platform than about the content.

This is what faithfulness costs now—not imprisonment, not yet martyrdom, but exclusion. Suppression. “This message doesn’t fit.” “This video can’t be promoted.”

Good.

It is far better to be rejected for speaking truth than accepted for flattering lies.

Let the Censorship Speak

TikTok has done us a favor. They’ve shown us that the call to holiness—the central theme of Christian life—is now countercultural enough to be suppressed.

Let that sink in: calling people to follow the Ten Commandments is now edgy.

So be it.

We will not water it down. We will not retreat. If “Mastery of the Self” is too religious for TikTok, then we are in exactly the right place. The light is shining, and the darkness does not comprehend it.

What You Can Do

Share the video. Speak the truth. Don’t hide your faith to avoid friction—proclaim it to cause conversion.

And above all: live the message. That’s what the world cannot ignore.

Because holiness is not a theory. It’s not a slogan. It’s a fire. And that fire is how the world is changed.

Let the platforms tremble. Let the censors panic. Let the truth ring louder than ever:

Freedom begins with self-mastery. Holiness is a choice. And the time to choose is now.