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To: darrellmaurina
West Michigan is **NOT** a liberal community.

Dutch Reform are known for their "Libertine" life styles!/sarc

I had a friend who went to Hope College, which was a long way from East-side Detroit.

I visited him and his fraternity required a coat and tie to enter!

I felt like I was back in Catholic school! LOL

23 posted on 06/23/2011 2:22:07 PM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President. How else could he beat Hillary?)
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To: Mikey_1962
Mikey1962 wrote: “Dutch Reform are known for their “Libertine” life styles!/sarc I had a friend who went to Hope College, which was a long way from East-side Detroit. I visited him and his fraternity required a coat and tie to enter! I felt like I was back in Catholic school! LOL”

You got that right about Dutch Reformed **NOT** being identified with being libertines!

For whatever it's worth, Hope College is the most “liberal” of the numerous Christian colleges in West Michigan, and it's affiliated with the same denomination as Robert Schuller and Norman Vincent Peale. If that was your experience at Hope College I think you can imagine what things would be like at someplace like Cornerstone College (General Association of Regular Baptists) or Kuyper College (formerly known as Reformed Bible Institute).

I'm a Calvin College graduate from many years ago, by the way, and I'm well aware of the problems of theological liberalism in both the RCA and CRC. However, it takes time for theological liberalism to manifest itself in openly immoral lifestyles, and the Dutch Reformed community of West Michigan is still very socially conservative even if it's taking a jackhammer to the foundations of the faith that built the community.

29 posted on 06/23/2011 2:31:37 PM PDT by darrellmaurina
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