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Because of your reluctance to decipher or discuss C.S. Lewis, I didn't bother on the Logical Inversions thread to direct your attention to this that I posted.

Closing lines of Men Without Chests:

"In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings to be fruitful." However, when I see you taking on some these "schooled" as he warned, I ache for you. I know you predict the end of our culture. You say you must fight the trend, but do you dread it enough? Perhaps much of your gloom stems from your own self-imposed limits? Maybe you haven't confronted these questions? You know the answers to all.

Here and there you have one who seems positively proud to have not been reached, as if having eluded some debilitating disease. And while you offer to them charitable counter-argument, you are lacking Lewis' insights and counsel.

From Lewis' Miracles:

"[Our age must not say of our ancestors] 'They believed in miracles because they did not know the laws of Nature.' This is nonsense...[several examples followed, worth reading but too long to include here, proving how our ancestors understood the natural from the supernatural readily] ...nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm. Complete ignorance of the laws of Nature would preclude the perception of the miraculous just as rigidly as complete disbelief in the supernatural precludes it, perhaps even more so. For while the materialist would have at least to explain miracles away, the man wholly ignorant of Nature would simply not notice them." We live in an age where the malignant effectively mislead by appealing to the present generation's unwarranted vanity. "We live at the most informed time to date." But how many are informed broadly themselves. Far too few you can be sure.

I wonder how many of these fools would think they're more brilliant than Isaac Newton, who in half self deprecation, half modesty, but all confidence, explained "If I have perhaps seen further than other men, it's because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." Some in our generation and the next see no need to be modest nor any need for self-skepticism. Sadly, not only ignoramuses are so easily misled.

As always, general, I commend your efforts. I wish I could imbue more useful knowledge at the snap of my figures. Alas, that must be incorporated, thru labor, by the one feeling the need to respond. "...but can't make him drink."

Peace.