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Hard to leave the charge. Hardly the Charge of the Light Brigade, February 12, 2020. Introduction

So just over a week ago our college ministry hosted an event on the University of

Idaho campus entitled The Lost Virtue of Sexism. About 250 people came along

with a medium-sized cadre of disruption agents and hecklers.

The internet audience has been much larger, coming in around 15K so far.

What's not to like?

From my perspective, the whole thing went swimmingly.

The planning was great, the U of I security team was smooth and professional.

The hecklers were not numerous enough to risk shutting it down entirely,

but were disruptive enough to attract the attention to many to the event.

Free speech actually happened at a state university and the gospel was presented. What's not to like?

But a question nevertheless arises, why do we do things like that in the first place?

Counterintuitive Effectiveness

In a moment I will get to the reasons for doing such things, but something else must really come first.

Questions assuming the ineffectiveness of such tactics generally arise when they have proven themselves astonishingly effective.

When something is working, there's usually going to be a push,

originating somewhere in the strategy offices of the other team,

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