“One study by Samuel Abrams found an astonishing 12:1 ratio of liberals to conservatives among administrators on University Campuses (71 percent identified as “liberal” or “very liberal”; only 6 percent identified as conservative)….
For faculty in the humanities, the ratio was 32 Democrats for every one Republican.”
Jonathan Barth
Real Clear Politics
“The fundamentalist parents of our fundamentalist students think that the entire ‘American liberal establishment’ is engaged in a conspiracy. The parents have a point. We do our best to convince these students of the benefits of secularization. So we are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable.”
Philosophers and Their Critics – pp.21-22
As Biblical Christians (as opposed to those who masquerade as Christians) we must realize that the Universities/Colleges (hereafter U/C) are utterly lost to us. This is especially true to those U/C that adopt the adjective of “Christian.” Christian U/C are merely 10 or 15 years behind the “secular” U/C in worldview treason and moral turpitude. At best Christian U/C will give a Christian coating to this or that subject, or maybe they will open class with a prayer or maybe even still have chapel three times a week, but the substance of what they teach and what they model smells of sulfur.
I am reminded of a Mother who contacted me a few years ago, asking for advice about her son who had attended both of our Alma Mater (Indiana Wesleyan University). She was weeping that her son had lost his faith while there and that the reason for that was the teaching he had received from the IWU (formerly Marion College) professoriate.
A couple of years following that I had a student contact me who had been bounced from his honors track at Indiana Wesleyan University for simply wearing a Halloween costume that was not accepted as politically correct. I don’t remember if he was wearing an Indian (Feather, not Dot) costume or exactly what it was, but I do remember the young man was turned into an example for future students who wouldn’t kowtow to the DEI agenda of the University.
Similarly, Calvin University (formerly Calvin College) strives to be left of Chairman Mao. Grove City college, as another example, finds Dr. Karl Falseman, who supports socialized health-care, teaching students, while misrepresenting the Reformed faith to his students. There may be one or two exceptions out there but on the whole it really doesn’t matter which Christian U/C you name, as the general lot of them have been infected with one form or another of humanism.
But why should the Christian U/C be any different though, given the state of the Christian church? Most Christian Churches, along with the clergy, don’t object to their Christian U/C because they are themselves bollixed up in the same manner. The PCA couldn’t discipline Greg Johnson. The OPC lost some fine ministers over the whole Aimee Byrd/feminism fiasco where the clergy of the OPC decided to turn on the young clergy as opposed to turning on Byrd’s feminism. The OPC also had the ghost racism General Assembly where they were flailing and flinging about denouncing “racists” in their midst before they realized they really didn’t have racists in their midst, and it all was a case of clergy going in circles chasing their Geneva gowns.
All this to say to Biblical Christian parents… “You can’t entrust your children to the clergy. You can’t entrust your children to the Churches. You can’t entrust your children to the Christian U/C. You have to do all that work yourself.” Parents could get away with trusting these Christian Institutions and men once upon a time but in this climate if parents turn their children over to these Institutions their children are not likely to hit 18 or 22 and remain Biblical Christians.
Caveat Emptor
Just want to say a huge THANK YOU for your columns and for all the truth-telling you do. Please keep up the good work.
Even here in the so-called Bible Belt where I live, we don’t get enough nitty gritty Bible, so I’m thankful for men like you who aren’t afraid to speak God’s word.
PS Also loved your interview about Kinism.
Thank you Marilyn for the encouraging words!
I agree with Marilyn, thanks for taking this on. Thanks to Marilyn for writing too. I was thinking, great piece but too bad there will be so few commenter.
One purpose the Christian U/C still provides that will keep them popular is that it’s the only place parents want their daughters to find someone.
Mrs. degrees are considered exist, but some Christian women are open about wanting to marry, and I think sending them to places to meet future pastors and missionaries seems like a godly decision.
That leads to other issues but provides a partial reason why parents might agree with you, but send them anyway.
I know the reason I heard from one parent about Groves is that the kids need to see opposition and will see it anyhow, and Groves is still much better than the rest and that’s where lots of sincere Christians go.
There’s a pro-CRT prof at Groves that speaks like a middle-schooler. Affirmation hire, but the students swooned over him on the tape I heard of him.
In terms of giving our daughters over to Molech so they can find mates;
Shall we do evil that good may come?
“sexist”, not exist. I don’t think it’s a godly decision, but they do.
The only pastors that show any sign of hope, are the ones who haven’t attended seminary.
>The OPC also had the ghost racism General Assembly where they were flailing and flinging about denouncing “racists” in their midst before they realized they really didn’t have racists in their midst
So every, single institution/denomination is like this?
There are always exceptions.