Why you should become a Bible-believing anarchist
who also believes the universe was created around 4004 B.C.
Why did a Christian of immense talent and experience lose in a head-to-head match with an atheist? Why did America -- a once-Christian nation with immense resources and potential -- become a debt-ridden nation of functionally illiterate atheists? (If they could travel through time, that's what America's Founders would think about today's Americans: they might as well be atheists.)
Why has church history turned out so poorly? Why has the Body of Christ not fulfilled "The Great Commission" Christ gave them (Matthew 28:18-20)?
I think the life of William Jennings Bryan is a microcosm of those failures.
If you're a Christian and you want to be an "influencer" and do well in debates with atheists, there are two parts to your training
The first part is 90% of the training.
William Jennings Bryan tried to defend Christianity the same way as the "church fathers" and subsequent Christian compromisers with autonomy. This is why Bryan failed so disastrously.