“To be tagged as an ID supporter is to become an academic pariah, and this holds even at so-called Christian institutions that place a premium on respectability at the expense of truth and the offense of the Gospel.”
Dembski, in comments to the Southern Baptist Texan newsjournal Sept. 4
Where in the preceding quote does he say SIMILAR or intimate that he is making an analogy? No he DIRECTLY says that tagging him as an ‘academic pariah’ is at the ‘expense of truth’ and an ‘offense of the Gospel’.
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Where in the preceding quote does he say SIMILAR or intimate that he is making an analogy? No he DIRECTLY says that tagging him as an ‘academic pariah’ is at the ‘expense of truth’ and an ‘offense of the Gospel’.
Where in the above statement does Dembski equate suppression of his work with suppression of the Gospel ?
He is simply saying that Baylor, being a Christian School ( which supposedly believes in God ( the intelligent deisgner ) is more interested in gaining acceptance from others than finding out about the truth. If Dembski were working in a secular university he would never have even mentioned the term ( something foreign to people who don't care one whit about the Bible ).
Let's talk about the term : "Offense of the Gospel", it is a term taken from St. Paul. See
here :
"In a well-known passage, St. Paul speaks of the
‘offense’ of the gospel. What did the Apostle mean in saying this? Certainly not that the gospel is intellectually offensive, even if it was nonsense to the proud Greek mind and absurdly wrong to the Jewish mind -- to the former it spoke mistakenly of the personal loving-kindness of God for humans; to the latter it was preposterous to think that somebody who had been crucified and therefore condemned by Jewish religious teaching could be so important as to be called Lord, Saviour, Life-bringer. What St. Paul was saying was quite different. He was insisting, as Rudolf Bultmann has emphasized in discussing Pauline thought, that the gospel of God’s generous love enacted in Jesus Christ offends human pretension to self-sufficiency, human sinful pride, and human dislike for being recipient of divine grace rather than able to earn by good works an eternal salvation.
The Gospel was an
OFFENSE to the people who heard about it from apostles like Paul, therfore he was being made an outcast for it. But he was NOT ASHAMED to present it anyway. Baylor, a Baptist school that hires Christian faculty, still have teachers that pray at the beginning of classes, a school that professes to believe in God as the intelligent designer, is suppressing work that might actually support this belief indirectly, yet, they suppress it because they fear being pariahs like St. Paul. Unlike the courageous St. Paul, they do not dare to stand on their supposed convictions.
THAT was the context of Dembski statement.
That is different from saying --- Dembski equates opposing his work to opposing the gospel ( your spin ).
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