Attracting Flies with Dung

A reader with the addictive name of Concept Junkie poses a difficult question concerning my articles over at EveryJoe:


Your language, Mr. Wright, in this series of articles is very blunt, as your rhetoric usually is. Now, I’m the last person to want to be seen as promoting anything in the same hemisphere as PC, and I’m usually pretty blunt myself, but while the content of these columns is excellent and I’m enjoying them thoroughly, given that the intended and actual audience is not the same as for your books or your blog, what are your thoughts, if I may ask, on the idea of how to “gather more flies”?


The purpose of the current series of articles was stated in the opening paragraph of last week’s article: to convince Conservatives that the continual accusation that they are stupid, foolish, or uneducated is not merely false but the opposite of the truth. These are intended as a pep talk for our team. It is not intended as persuasive speech to convince a Leftist to question his faith.


However, your question was more general than that: you are asking in general how to evangelize.


My answer is twofold. My first answer is that gentlemen do not concern themselves with the opinions of the world, since the world is filled with folly. The Christian is even less interested in worldly opinion than the gentleman. Once he realizes that he lives in the environs of the City of Destruction, a Christian pilgrim sticks his fingers in his ears and runs toward the Promised Land, crying out “Life! Life! Eternal life!”

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