leaders as the current Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in America are a dream for us. The fourth stage is defection (or “bringing over” individual Christians). This is the stage through which we keep up sustained propaganda efforts that have been specifically designed to make the most of notorious defections from the Christian side (counter-conversions, if you like). The high tide for this sort of brain drain in Europe was during late-nineteenth century (it has been one of the factors in
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