How Does One 'Disagree with Common Knowledge' Effectively?

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When I hear someone make a public-statement based on something false, and I DON'T get mad; it looks like I'm agreeing with the stupid statement! Yet--when I DO get mad--it does about as much good as Adam Lanza's little outburst (the mass-shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary) did for HIS problems. I try to 'hold in' my disagreement, but I worry about the young minds that 'follow the false speaker' like 'lambs follow the good shepherd right into the slaughterhouse.' To save them from that danger, I feel it is my responsibility to voice my disagreement; but ... I seem to remember Lord Jesus being two ways about this: on the one hand, He was 'not here to destroy, but to fulfill the law & the prophets'; on the other hand, He came bringing 'not the olive-branch, but the sword (to cut father off of son, mother off of daughter, mother-in-law off of daughter-in-law).' But His method was almost always 'gentleness.' Even His little eruptions against the Pharisees & other hypocrites were 'not as explosive as He could've made them.' A couple "His & Hernandez"-songs (or "Agapeland"-songs) about 'Gentleness' pop into my head---one says "Lord, let me fill my life with your Gentleness"; another one lists many of the ways gentleness can be described ("Gentleness is patient, gentleness is kind; Gentleness is caring and loving all the time") and finishes with "Gentleness is Jesus, and I'm his little lamb." So no "confrontation of the Enemy" (even when He came up against the Enemy, Jesus' strategy was more 'eluding' than 'battling'), but probably 'just-as-loudly offering a better path' would be the best way to turn people into (not atheists, obviously; but) anti-religion-ites.