Posted on 08/28/2015 6:48:58 AM PDT by daniel1212
Those who teach in higher education are relatively OK with some religious groups, according to a study based on a 2012 online national survey that drew 464 complete responses.
Asked to assess religious groups on a “feeling thermometer” of 1 to 100, Jewish people, mainline Protestants and Catholics all achieved an average score of 65 or higher, researchers led by University of North Texas sociologist George Yancey reported in an online article in the journal Sociology of Religion.
Next to the bottom, just slightly above fundamentalists, were Protestant evangelicals with an average score of 48.
Based on the rankings and other survey responses, researchers Yancey, Sam Reiner and Jake O’Connell classified nearly half of the participants as “conservative Protestant critics,” those with negative attitudes toward evangelicals.
The greatest sin of evangelicals: A perceived intolerance toward the academic critics own political views and belief systems.
“They tend to be intolerant of others with different points of view or political positions,” one health care professor said. An English professor said evangelicals were attempting “to change the U.S. from a secular to a religious state.”
In contrast, just 17 percent of the academic respondents were classified as “theological definers,” a group describing conservative Protestants in more neutral, academic terms....
They are not like us: Research has indicated academics in general are less religious and more politically liberal than most Americans, and that conservative Protestants are substantially underrepresented on university faculty...
Don’t know them, don’t want to know them: In the study, the harshest academic critics of conservative Protestants were the ones with the least contact, and least likely to seek to establish relationships with evangelicals. Those who took a more neutral academic approach were most likely to have evangelicals in their social network.
“Despite bad press, my (many) dealings with evangelical Protestants remind me that most of those with whom I’ve worked sincerely try to lead lives marked with loving kindness and good will,” one “theological definer” reported..
Easy to pick on, harder to defend: The study also found academic critics felt free to use harsh, emotional language when describing conservative Protestants; more neutral observers largely confined themselves to academic, dispassionate assessments. The open hostility of critics “may produce a silencing effect which keeps conservative Protestants ‘in the closet,’” study researchers said.
This, and the liberal bias of the media, also relates to the treatment of Cruz, whom i see as the best candidate.
A poll of conservative and progressive religious activists showed 48 percent of conservatives activists believe the Bible to be the literal word of God, versus only 3 percent of “progressives”, otherwise known as liberals. This contrast was also seen in other issues, with 95 percent of conservatives opposing legalization of abortion, and 82 percent opposing both same-sex marriage and civil unions, while 80 percent of liberals support some form of legal abortions (54 percent in most cases), with 59 percent support same-sex marriage. The study also found that Evangelical Protestants composed 54 percent of conservatives, Roman Catholics 35 percent, and mainline Protestants 9 percent, while liberal activists were made up of 44 percent mainline Protestants, 17 percent Roman Catholics, 10 percent Evangelical Protestants, and interfaith bodies and groups (12 percent). 2009 Religious Activist Surveys conducted by the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron in partnership with Public Religion Research. http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090916/u-s-religious-activists-have-widely-divergent-views/index.html
A (disputed) study showed that 50% of American college faculty identified themselves as Democrats and only 11% as Republicans (with 33% being Independent, and 5% identifying themselves with another party). 72% described themselves as “to the left of center,” including 18% who were strongly left. Only 15% described themselves as right of center, including only 3% who were “strongly right.” North American Academic Study Survey (NAASS) of students, faculty and administrators at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada 1999. The Berkeley Electronic Press http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/04/conservatives-underrepresented-in.html http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol3/iss1/art2 http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/17963/liberal_bias_in_our_schools.html
Extensive surveys by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, conducted in 2006 and 2007 of 14,000 college freshmen and seniors at fifty colleges nationwide, indicated that college education results in little advance in knowledge of American history and institutions, which is already poor among non-college graduates, but an often significant increase in favoring liberal ideology was seen over those who were not college graduates. In addition, those with the highest degrees were the most liberal. Intercollegiate Studies Institute, ‘’The Shaping of the American Mind.’ http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2010/major_findings_finding1.html
Analysis of Federal Election Commission data regarding the 2010 midterm elections showed that college professors and administrators donated heavily and overwhelmingly is support of Democrats over Republicans. This included 77 percent of total donations from employees of Harvard university and 86 percent of all donations from employees of University of California’s network of colleges going to Democrats, with pro abortion Sen. Barbara Boxer being the top recipient of academic donations, while no donations from Princeton went to a Republican. Analysis of Federal Election Commission conducted by the Center for Responsive Politics, reported by Capitol News Company, 9/22/10
Of 100 colleges and universities graded on their general education requirements by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), 42 institutions received a D or F for requiring two or fewer core subjects, while 25 of them received an F for requiring one or no subjects. Only 5 institutions received an A for requiring six general education subjects. Average tuition and fees at the 11 schools that require no subjects was $37,700; average tuition at the five schools that require six subjects is $5,400. Walter E. Williams , professor of economics at George Mason University. http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/08/26/what_will_they_learn http://whatwilltheylearn.com/criteria
In a 1996 poll of 1,037 reporters at 61 newspapers, 61 percent identified themselves as Democrats, 15 percent as Republicans. The respondents also identified themselves as liberals 4 times more frequently than as conservatives. American Society of Newspaper editors 1996 survey of 1,037 reporters at 61 newspapers of all sizes nationwide. http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=32928
In a 2001 Kaiser Family Foundation poll, media professionals were nearly 7 times likelier to call themselves Democrats rather than Republicans, with the ratio of self-identified liberals to conservatives being 4.2 to 1. Kaiser Family Foundation 1996 poll of 301 “media professionals,” 300 “policymakers,” and 1,206 members of the general public.
In a 2007 Pew Research Center study of journalists and news executives, the ratio was 4 liberals for each conservative. Pew Research Center’s 2007 survey of 222 journalists and news executives at national outlets.
All told, White House correspondents during the late ’80s and early ’90s voted for Democrats at 7 times the rate at which they voted for Republicans. U.S. News & World Report writer Kenneth Walsh’s 1995 study of 28 White House correspondents. 1996 Freedom Forum survey of 139 Washington bureau chiefs and congressional correspondents.
On the subject of welfare and related issues, liberal experts were quoted in the news 75 percent of the time, conservatives 22 percent. On consumer issues, the liberal-conservative ratio was 63 percent to 22 percent. On environmental issues, the ratio was 79 percent to 18 percent. And regarding nuclear energy, the ratio was 77 percent to 20 percent. Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman, and Linda Lichter, The Media Elite: America’s New Power Brokers (New York: Hastings House, 1990).
In 2011, 38% of voters believed that when most reporters write or talk about Pres. Obama, they are trying to help him pass his agenda (down from 48% a year ago). 26% feel that most reporters are politically biased, 46% think the average reporter is more liberal than they are, while 26% say they are merely interested in reporting the news in an unbiased manner. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/media/61_are_still_angry_at_the_media
I guess hating Evangelicals is America’s only accepted prejudice.
Ping
I really don’t care what “academics” think of me. Not one bit.
It’s not just limited to evangelicals - it’s ALL Christians.
I dispute the numbers in these polls - I have read threads on FR in the past where the academia Leftist quotient is north of 80%, and the media’s even higher.
“academics look down on evangelicals”
And God looks down on “academics”. Stupid is as stupid does.
Because the typical Academic thinks that he or she is the smartest creature to ever inhabit the universe and long ago evolved beyond the need to believe in God.
The greatest sin of evangelicals: A perceived intolerance toward the academic critics own political views and belief systems.
“They tend to be intolerant of others with different points of view or political positions,” one health care professor said. An English professor said evangelicals were attempting “to change the U.S. from a secular to a religious state.”
Their problem is that they object to someone doing exactly what they do to others.
“I guess hating Evangelicals is America’s only accepted prejudice.”
Psssst! I think one has to be a white evangelical to be hated.
Well, I grew up a Schofield evangelical and was actually under the impression that anyone who did not believe as I did was not a Christian. I went to the only Christian Jr college in the states at the time (74) and it was there that I cried my eyes out before the Lord and asked for the truth about the second coming.
I study the Word and never take a verse out of context. I do read fast so I read the chapter of the verse while listening in church. Anyway, I am a post-tribulationist and know that there will people of every nation, tribe and tongue in the Kingdom. His name is Savior.
True. Hating Christians IS America’s applauded and “heroic” prejudice.
To borrow something from academia...
Psychological projection is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against unpleasant impulses by denying their existence in themselves, while attributing them to others. For example, a person who is rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude.
On such as these anyway.
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. (2 Corinthians 11:19)
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, (Romans 1:22)
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, (Ephesians 5:15)
>Because the typical Academic thinks that he or she is the smartest creature to ever inhabit the universe and long ago evolved beyond the need to believe in God.
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. Cor I 1:27 NIV
-Franks
Actually Catholics are the group most targeted - that is Catholic icons are constantly being attacked. Any image which may be thought to be Catholic is fair game to artists and media types.
As a group however, Evangelicals are more homogeneous, as they choose to be Evangelicals because of their fervor in belief in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior - and the name of Jesus is anathema to liberal professors.
The other groups mentions have a higher approval only because people in those groups are all over the spectrum in the intensity of their beliefs, and their politics. Think the difference between Two Jewish men: Mark Levin and Jon Stewart; Two Catholics: Nancy Pelosi vs Rick Santorum.
It is even more interesting IMHO that even in those categories professors show only a 65% approval. Does that mean that about 35% of university professors are actively hostile to even the mention of God? It would seem so.
It’s wrong to be intolerant of anybody or anything, and they ain’t gonna tolerate it!
We’ll see who is looking down on whom in the hereafter...
I think it’s more than a theory.
I’ve seen it plenty in my life and the lives of others I know.
Oh no, as that is the coveted fantasy of certain RCs!
Similar journey here, fasten seat belt.
It has been that way for as long as I can remember. When I was young, it seemed they backed off the Christian hate when the moral majority stood up to them with Reagan but the hate was always there...just sneakier.
That hatred moved me to look into Evangelical Protestants. I figured if the Marxists hated them the most of all Christians, they must be the real thing - the greatest threat to Marxist cultural cleansers. I found them to be great people of all races.
Not so much today for many of the church leaders have sold out to the Left. They want to be loved by the world...and the world demands the worship of evil. It’s a shame to see it happen.
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