The Secret to Evangelizing the Nones

“You idiot” is crucial to that exchange. It is, I believe, one of the most useful but neglected phrases in any effective evangelical strategy. ...This is especially true when we understand why so many young people are becoming “nones” (religiously unaffiliated). Their falling away from Christianity has nothing to do with startling critiques of St. Thomas Aquinas. It has nothing to do with profound philosophical rejoinders against St. Anselm’s proof for the existence of God. It has nothing to do with deep textual analysis refuting the Gospels as reliable history. No, it is instead the result of young people cultivating shallowness, superficiality, and solipsism as a philosophy of life—and from a very early age.