How Many Anti-Semites Should Speak at Your Christian Conference? by John Zmirak

What’s the really optimal number? One, six, or 27?

By John Zmirak, The Stream, May 22, 2023

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or co-author of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He is co-author with Jason Jones of “God, Guns, & the Government.”

Sometimes it’s fun and enlightening to play out “what if” scenarios. To pose purely hypothetical ethical questions that set up a dilemma. Then explore the various options of how a good person should best make the most prudent decision.

Those who took philosophy classes will remember questions like this one, such as famous hypotheticals involving life rafts with too many people. Okay?

Gathering Christian Leaders to Inspire People

The fantasy situation we’re dealing with today is this one: Let’s say you’re a Christian, specifically a Catholic. You’re troubled by the division, lack of leadership, and even heretical leadership that afflicts too many inside your church. Furthermore, you see that the political situation for Christians of every kind is becoming toxic and ugly. You worry that too many people inside your church are losing hope, drifting away, or isolating themselves and abandoning any effort to evangelize the culture. …

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