Christians Against Empire at Princeton--The growing evangelical left in academia.

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | August 30, 2006 | Mark D. Tooley

[Cicero]

"Evangelical" is a hard word to pin down, but I wouldn't call this guy an Evangelical, any more than the other nutcases he grew up with.

Left-wing politics are not new to Hunsinger. He recalled to The Nation his campaigning for Father Robert Drinan’s congressional campaign while Hunsinger was a Harvard seminarian. In the late 1970’s, Hunsinger worked for William Sloane’s Coffin’s Disarmament Program at New York’s famously more-liberal-than-thou Riverside Church.

That pretty much says it all.

This guy is Princeton's kind of theologian, just as Singer is Princeton's kind of moral philosopher. The Ivy League seminaries were always a mixed bag, strong on fashionable scholarship but weak on Christian principles. Now they've really gone down the tubes.

[Cicero]

Sorry, that second paragraph should have been in italics.

[neb52]

"In an interview with The Nation magazine last year, Hunsinger recalls that he was energized after 9-11. “I found myself spending more time on the Internet than I care to remember trying to get a handle on what was really happening,” he remembered. “I could see the ominous implications for war as well as for a crackdown on liberty at home.”

I just love these I became a Middle East Expert after 9/11 types. Were was he before 9/11? What rock was he living under prior to 9/11? People who do not educate themselves of world events constantly will be prone to gullibility and believing whoever has the silveriest of tongues.

[Just mythoughts]

Interesting isn't it that nothing in the article puts Christ anywhere in their Christianity, it is all about themselves.

[BibChr]

Theologically orthodox...Hunsinger emblemizes the growing evangelical left in academia.

I bet that either the first statement is untrue, or the second is.

Dan
Biblical Christianity BLOG
Pyromaniacs

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[wideawake]

Thank you.

[AZLiberty]

Nothing new here: Princeton's William Sloane Coffin was doing this in the '60s.

[SJackson]

"Evangelical" is a hard word to pin down, but I wouldn't call this guy an Evangelical, any more than the other nutcases he grew up with.

I figure in a political context it's a perjorative, like right wing Christian. Perhaps that's about to change.

[Tzimisce]

And here I thought we were supposed to separate church and state. Nice to know that like so many other things, those rules don't apply to lefties.

>“The right-wing take-over of religious discourse in America” needed rebutting, Hunsinger told The Nation. <

Of course, there's no problem at all with a left wing takeover of our nation's schools, universities, media.....

[alloysteel]

It was the Islamic Iranian takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran, after the fall of the Shah, that led to the first confrontation with the current theological regime in Iran.

And Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of the Iranian "students" who held the hostages from our embassy for some 444 days.

Do we want to talk to this sorry excuse for a cur dog?

[madprof98]

I am curious whether these people believe basic Christian truths, such as that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, and that he is the only way to the father.

You were giggling as you typed that, right? (I'm sure this crowd would be giggling if they read it.)

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I understand that there is a dispute over whether or not he was one of the "students."

Regardless, we should put NO trust in anything these Islamicfascists thugs say.

I suspect that negotiating with Kim would be more productive than negotiating with Ahmadinejad.

[flynmudd]

My preacher dad made me read that book when I was twelve. I recommend it to everybody.

[MeanWestTexan]

I knew everything back when I was twelve, so the book would have meant little to me.

Somehow, I have forgotten all I knew back then. :)