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To: dangus
Yes, but a "bible college" withstanding the temptations research univesities face isn't all that impressive.

Frankly, I couldn't care less whether you're impressed by it. Often the best way to resist temptations is to avoid the situations that produce them.

Let's make sure I'm getting your point. Are you now saying it's okay for your Catholic "research univesities" [sic] to show the V. Monologues, in order to appeal to the world around (and infesting) them?

16 posted on 02/07/2005 1:08:54 PM PST by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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To: newgeezer
Are you now saying it's okay for your Catholic "research univesities" [sic] to show the V. Monologues, in order to appeal to the world around (and infesting) them?

No, I think he's saying that he wouldn't expect the world to infest a Bible college to the extent it might infest someplace actively trying to integrate faith into the life of a larger school.

A Bible college (unless I'm misunderstanding your term) is more analogous to a Catholic seminary than to someplace like Notre Dame. Aren't most of the people there studying for the ministry, interested in marrying a minister, or otherwise studying some faith-related subject ... hence the name "Bible College"?

A better analogy to e.g., Notre Dame would be someplace like Baylor. AFAIK, Baylor is staying pretty solid. (My wife went there for a time, and still gets some of their literature.) But they have a continuous fight on their hands.

Most of the larger, originally Protestant schools long ago became completely secularized, though. The Catholic schools apostatized in the 1960's after Humanae Vitae (the reiteration of the condemnation of contraception).

There are only about 10 authentically Catholic colleges left in the US, none of which are on this list.

18 posted on 02/07/2005 1:41:31 PM PST by Campion
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To: newgeezer

No, absolutely not! But they do feel pressure to get grants, accredidations, rankings, etc. While it is definitely evil to put such things ahead of remaining a Christian university, and certainly even more evil to market oneself as a Christian university while allowing oneself to be so perverted; I was just recognizing that such pressures create a pressure bible colleges do not face.

Grant-writers and accrediting boards frown greatly on what they call censorship; even moreso on "discriminating" against heretical professors. If you then hire secular professors to teach secular subjects, you still find yourself with scads of secularists running around, implementing policies and protesting assertions of authenticity. If you resist hiring secula professors, good luck getting accredidation.


19 posted on 02/07/2005 1:53:20 PM PST by dangus
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