The best way to inform people is to give them relevant information and time to ponder it. Let them make the important logical connections themselves. Once people go "Ah-ha!" and gain clarity, they never forget that lesson.
Whereas preaching and sermonizing are like shooting water cannons and our minds are the ducks' backs: the words slide off and need to be renewed soon again.
Freedom of Religion in one of its senses means that men and women must at some time in their lives make the "vision quest" or the withdrawal into the desert for "forty days and nights"; they must ascend Sinai or make a Night Journey They must come to grips with God as an immanent reality. That lesson they won't forget.
Some will be destroyed by such an encounter, no doubt. I think the numbers will be much less than the multitudes destroying themselves now with drugs and alcohol and violence.
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