The Real Agenda of Some College Professors

For Christian parents and students, this should be a matter of deep concern and active awareness. The secularization of most educational institutions is an accomplished fact. Indeed, many college and university campuses are deeply antagonistic to Christian truth claims and the beliefs held by millions of students and their families. Furthermore, the leftist bent of most faculty is well-documented, especially in elite institutions and within the liberal arts faculties. On many campuses, a significant number of faculty members are representatives of what has been called the “adversary culture.” They see their role as political and ideological, and they define their teaching role in these terms. Their agenda is nothing less than to separate students from their Christian beliefs and their intellectual and moral commitments.

A good many of these professors deny this agenda, but from time to time the mask is removed. Writing at the “University Diaries” column at the site InsideHigherEd.com, a professor of English revealed this agenda with amazing candor. Responding to an argument about the power of intellectual elites, this professor dropped any effort to hide the real agenda:

“We need to encourage everyone to be in college for as many years as they possibly can,” this professor wrote, “in the hope that somewhere along the line they might get some exposure to the world outside their town, and to moral ideas not exclusively derived from their parents’ religion. If they don’t get this in college, they’re not going to get it anywhere else.”

This professor minces no words. The college experience, the argument goes, is the best (and perhaps last) opportunity for someone to break students’ commitments to the moral convictions “derived from their parents’ religion.”

Where was the stone???

Or were you trying to say that we are not to discern good from evil???

Thanks, I didn't think I was throwing stones.

Of course we are to discern good and evil. Part of the curse of the Fall is that we "have become like one of us, able to know good and evil" Genesis 3:22. There are many understandings of that statement but I believe that to some degree it means that as a result of being cast out of the garden, we are on our own. We are forced to make the call b/n good and evil but we do not have the capability to do that on our own. It was and is the domain of God alone.

That does not mean that we are utterly without help. We have scripture and we have the Holy Spirit. The non-believer does not share in that and, apart from his conscience (which is a gift from God), simply makes it up or follows cultural norms, doing whatever seems right in his own eyes.

The believer still must be careful as today we only see, 'as through a glass, darkly.' Hence we must admit in humility that we remain flawed and prone to misunderstanding and misinterpretation. We must make the effort to choose the right because God calls us to. But we can be wrong, and we must rely on the grace and mercy of our Creator and his forgiveness in Christ. We must be comforted by looking forward to that day when we shall be changed and will see the Truth face to face.

Your welcome...I did not see any stones...

By any chance, have you seen or read any of Ray Comfort’s material, “WDJD”, “Hell’s Best Kept Secret”, or “Way Of The Master”?

From reading some of your posts I think you might find them interesting...

God bless

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