In a recent post by Dr. Fred Sanders at Middlebrow, he examines Dorothy Sayers' project to get the Christian message out. She sure didn't spare words for those who displayed intellectual laziness and apathy:
(Sanders): "...The average person has a boundless ignorance of Christianity, rooted in their laziness and thoughtlessness. 'Nine people out of ten in this country are ignorant heathens,' [Sayers] said in 1939. “I do not so much mind the heathendom, but the ignorance is really alarming.” And a few years later, when a broadcaster asked her to write a short letter explaining Christianity for the average person, Sayers spat back:
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