Posted on 08/18/2005 5:04:35 PM PDT by bloggodocio
Of the 6 seminars I have presented, the Am. Religious History is the most leftist, which will suprise some. But it's taught by a Athiest/Trotskyite, who has a life mission of attacking religion.
I would have guessed it for sure. The most important cultural institution that stands in opposition to the New Left's agenda is the Christian church, both evangelical and Catholic. Mainline American Protestanism has largely collapsed and is, with a very few notable exceptions, on the side of the radical left at the most senior level. Thus you get professors like the atheist/Trotskyite you mentioned. Sometimes these professors wind up at seminaries.
My sister-in-law was thinking of attending a Baptist college, and she was somewhat confused when I explained to her that the Religion classes she would have to take aren't always taught by people who believe the Bible to be true. This confused her. "Why do they teach the Bible then?" she asked. A reasonable question, and one for which her church should have prepared her. I explained about professors who see it as their mission in life to take nice young naive Bible-believing Christians and wear them down until they embrace liberalism. Still not sure whether she got it. The good news is she probably won't attend that school.
Interesting. Marketable skills like tech still have places to go.
The schools continue to admit a lot of doctoral students, which I think is a dis-service when there is no market.
Ah, but then who would teach the classes and grade the papers for all the tenured Professors?
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