Comments on: Are Liberals and Atheists Smarter?

By: Headless Unicorn Guy

Headless Unicorn Guy — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:13:42 +0000

Too often, for atheists, conservative evangelical Protestantism is the only Christianity of which they are philosophically aware.

Well, with “Culture War Without End, Amen,” it IS one of the loudest and highest-profile forms.

By: Headless Unicorn Guy

Headless Unicorn Guy — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:54:02 +0000

Opposite end of the pastor/media/activist specturm, Debra.

Comparing the guy you don’t like to Ol’ Adolf is so widespread there’s even an Internet meme about it — “Godwin’s Law”.

By: Headless Unicorn Guy

Headless Unicorn Guy — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:50:42 +0000

A “social interpretation” that ends up with a Social Gospel without personal salvation.

And the Fundamental backlash into a Gospel of Personal Salvation and ONLY Personal Salvation is equally out-of-balance and at least as destructive.

By: Headless Unicorn Guy

Headless Unicorn Guy — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:48:22 +0000

The Liberation Theology I encountered at Newman Center circa 1980 ending up ditching the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for a new Trinity of Marx, Lenin, and Castro.

Their liberation mixed in Marxism to the point that the Marxism-Leninism took over and Christ got Purged.

By: Headless Unicorn Guy

Headless Unicorn Guy — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:44:46 +0000

Enjoy being the only Sheep at the Sheep-and-Goats scene, Mark. The only one Righteous enough for that Heavenly inheritance, in a Heaven less populated than the one in the South Park universe.

“Us Four, No More, Amen” — until you find Heresy in the other three.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:57:40 +0000

I also became Christian in college thanks to the campus ministry intervarsity. At my school (UC San Diego) the ministry experienced a lot of growth.

The “liberal indoctrination” power of the average secular college university is greatly overestimated in my opinion. Good colleges will encourage students to think for themselves.

Hell, I went into college as an agnostic with some negative views of the Bible. As a result of my humanities class, studying the Bible from a secular perspective, my opinion of the Bible was actually slightly improved. My secular professor taught us that, most of the time, when an animal is sacrificed, some or all of the animal is cooked and eaten. (Sin offerings are burned up, but most other kinds of offerings are eaten.) Before I would read the OT, see 5,000 cattle sacrificed to the LORD and I would think, “What a waste, all those animals burned to ash for no reason.” Now I know that the text is talking about an awesome barbecue held to honor God.

If you’re an inerrantist, or a creationist, especially a YEC, you will have a hard time in college, but I think people overstate their power as liberal indoctrination engines. I came out of college slightly more conservative than when I went in, simply by virtue of making conservative friends.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:45:45 +0000

Strangely I had a similar experience recently, even though I came to faith later in life. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, and asking a lot of hard questions about how faith relates to salvation. Somehow in the middle of all that I started wondering if I was really saved.

For me it came down to the question: does God accept me for who I am? I was reminded of Paul’s words in Corinthians, “But by the grace of God I am what I am.” I am convinced that God made me the way I am, with a tenacious mind and a willingness to ask hard questions and seek out the answer.

This behavior often isn’t accepted in church, but I am convinced that God approves of it.

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By: Eclectic Christian - Michael Bell

Eclectic Christian - Michael Bell — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:08:33 +0000

My bad, sorry. Bet you got that a lot growing up.