I wrote a blogpost on The failure of Gentile Christianity.

This has been misread by some people as ‘Gentile Christianity has failed’. The wish may be the father of the thought because there are some Christians who misread the Bible and conclude that things will simply get worse and worse. Misreading and misunderstanding is common in modern debate. The reasons are quite basic which I have discussed elsewhere. The apostle Paul experienced the same mis-reading of his writing. In his second epistle to the Thessalonians he corrected a mis-reading of his first epistle 2Th 2:1-2. People still continue to mis-read this. In 2012 David Suchet made a two-part documentary In the Footsteps of St Paul which continued to promote the mis-reading of Paul’s epistles. I wrote to his agent to point out this basic error. I got no acknowledgement. I tweeted Suchet without success. Such is the accessibility of public figures. Paul’s second epistle continues to be mis-read and mis-understood to the present time.

Such is the failure of Britain’s education system and the disregard for truthfulness in discussion and debate, that people are unable to follow the thread of a discussion or a debate. Even written blogposts can be too long for their short attention span. They misread the subject of a sentence. They mistake a topic with its qualification by an adjective. Thus the topic of the previous blogpost is not Gentile Christianity, but its failure. This does not mean that Gentile Christianity is a complete failure, but this is how some superficial readers understand it. If they paid attention to the whole blogpost, they would have seen that it refers to the success of Gentile Christianity but moves on to discuss its failure.

As long as public discourse fails to understand the English language, the medium of discourse, so long this confusion will continue and public discourse will continue to go round in circles. Worse than this, the toxic nature of discussion on social media is fuelling public riots in Britain today. The UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has set up a special police unit to tackle far-right thugs – why is he using terms like “far-right”? Inaccuracy only adds to the divisions in UK society and public discourse needs to improve. It could begin by observing the many “proofs by assertion” in public discourse. GB News has claimed to be different from the mainstream media but it has its own examples of prejudicial categorisations that have not been called out.

Thus I have composed this short addendum to my previous blogpost with a different title to explain and highlight what superficial readers failed to read. I may need to refer to this blogpost rather frequently as I discern more and more examples of people failing to follow an argument.