It's good that good Christians like yourself are educating the heathen like
me.
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http://www.murkfamilyministries.org/Articles/Tendemons.html
THE INSUFFERABLE INTOLERANCE OF AMERICA'S UNIVERSITIES
FACTORIES OF LEFTIST THOUGHT, CITADELS OF PAGANISM, TEMPLES TO ATHEISM
The African-American economist and educator Thomas Sowell has called the
universities the most intolerant institutions in America. Most of the
older
universities (about 108 of 120) were founded by Christians in order to
train
students to study the Bible, spread the Christian message and maintain
Biblical morality. They have, however, today become destroyers of our
Christian heritage, our origins and our traditions. They are apostles of
pagan ideas, socialist dogma, atheistic philosophy and a destructive
morality. Most of the members of the legal profession from which our
judges
are chosen, plus our teachers, media personnel and political leaders, are
being trained in these leftist liberal institutions, which tend to keep
themselves cleansed from conservative principles and ideas. Our future
leaders are being brainwashed in leftist liberal ideas as they sit,
unsuspecting and impressionable, in classrooms across America.
Our institutions of higher learning have become the principal purveyors of
a
new moral code of conduct called "political correctness." They are
unconsciously or consciously dedicated to indoctrination as much or more
than to education. Their emphasis is on feeling and self-esteem instead of
truth and reason. One of their goals has become to change America into a
nation entirely different from what was bequeathed to us by our Founding
Fathers. Many are supporters and teachers of every leftist-liberal idea
and
dogma and are driven to impose these new ideas and values on American
society. In support of the new philosophy of freedom and political
correctness they have become exclusive, dogmatic, and dictatorial in their
spirit and in much of their practice.
Jeffrey Duban, a Georgia Tech faculty member turned lawyer said, "Higher
education has just gone to hell because of political correctness, and a
lot
the problems that faculty coming up for promotion and tenure have these
days
are ideologically motivated." He went on to explain that if you express a
view or oppose another faculty member in these areas, you may very well be
passed over for promotion or tenure. He said, "God help you if you
question;
the ideologues . . . won't forget it." (Quoted in Human Events, Oct. 12,
1997, p. 6.)
"Political correctness" comprises a new morality or set of commandments.
Major divisions in the universities, especially in the humanities and
social
sciences, have become huge propaganda distributing and brainwashing
machines. They have more and more become citadels of neo-paganism and
temples to the secular religion of atheistic humanism. If you look at the
new curricula of most major universities today, you will find a tremendous
change from just thirty years ago. Courses in the history, literature, and
culture of Western and American civilization have been greatly curtailed,
and courses in aberrant and erotic subjects have been added in great
profusion.
Examples from the course catalog (1994-95) of the venerable Brown
University
in Rhode Island include the following: (1) Topics in Human Sexuality; (2)
Introduction to Lesbian and Gay Studies; (3) Black Nationalism, Black
Power,
and Black Militarism in the 1960's; (4) The Big Picture: Contemporary
Hollywood and Social Crisis; (5) Producing Asian American Sexuality; (6)
Histories of Early Modern Body: Scientia Sexualis/Ars Erotica; (7)
Development of American Feminist Theories; (8) Daughters of Darkness:
Lesbian Tropes; (9) Rogues, Vagabonds, and Sturdy Beggars; (10) Unnatural
Acts and Split Britches; (11) The Early Modern Sexed Subject; (12) Queer
Theory; (13) Sexual and Racial Politics of African American Women
Novelists;
(14) Gays and Lesbians in Twentieth Century Germany; (15) Pornography and
Culture; (16) Circumcision: Male and Female, Jewish and Gentile; (17)
Feminism and Poststructuralism; (18) Disney: Uncle Walt and the FBI; (19)
Feminist Philosophy; (20) Readings in Feminist Theory; (21) Christianity,
Violence, and Victimization. Would you want to send your child or
grandchild
to a university with these kinds of educational emphases?
CBS TV's venerable news-magazine "60 Minutes" featured a number of
universities in America which were including in their curriculum the new
academic discipline known as "queer studies." In a Duke University class
called "Perspective in Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Studies" Professor John
Younger teaches the idea of the "butch-femme" combination in lesbian
history
and sadomasochism in homosexuality. The S&M male relationship is actually
acted out by students wearing black leather costumes, leather chaps, and
using whips and chains to inflict pain. The purpose of this definitely
"hands on" course is to examine the students' narrow-minded views and give
them a broader understanding of varieties of sexuality. The State
University
of New York at New Palz was featured as having a conference called
"Revolting Behavior--The Challenge of Women's Sexual Freedom" in which
razor
blades were used in "blood-letting sexual activities." Dartmouth offers
"Queer Theory, Queer Text," Stanford students can sign up for
"Homosexuals,
Heretics, Witches and Werewolves: Deviants in Medieval Society," and The
University of California at Santa Cruz features "Latex Lovers: A Workshop
on
Queer Women, Safe Sex." In the meantime studies in Western civilization
and
culture are being dumped because they are very EWM (European White Male)
and
have a definitively Christian bias. So go our pagan universities.
University students are no longer encouraged to be on a relatively
unbiased
intellectual quest. They are subjected to being enthusiastically
indoctrinated with the new leftism and the prevailing amorality. The
universities are therefore deteriorating as models of educational
excellence
particularly in these areas of the humanities and the social sciences,
which
often even find themselves at war with the more objective physical
sciences.
With the new advances in astronomy, cosmology, and theoretical physics,
scientists have come face to face with the unnerving reality based on laws
of probability that there must be a super intelligence behind this
universe
we have called the Creator. The scuttlebutt on campus today, therefore, is
that now you will usually have to go to departments like philosophy,
sociology and psychology to find the atheists. They are in short supply in
the physical sciences.
A study of this new, "enlightened" curricula of our major universities is
all one needs to understand how far they have fallen in their concept of
the
purpose of education. Everything seems geared to cutting us off from our
roots, from the so-called white male, Anglo-Western culture which also has
a
Christian cultural base. Liberals are instead promoting a multicultural
society based on the philosophies of cultural and moral relativism, which
is
at its heart anti-Western and anti-Christian.
Recently Yale University was forced to return 20 million dollars to a
billionaire alumnus who had earmarked his gift to subsidize studies in
Western civilization, the roots of our culture. The involved faculty
rebelled at the suggestion that this should any longer constitute an
important core emphasis in higher education and rejected the strings
attached to his gift. Yale University was therefore forced to return the
donation. No other society has exhibited such foolishness unless it was
the
USSR, which cut itself off from its roots, and destroyed itself. We are
infected with the same craziness, and we are moving in the same direction.
Cut flowers are doomed to die. On the other hand, Yale has included 50
courses in its curriculum which deal with gays and lesbians--their
history,
their sociology, their sexual orientation, and their lifestyle. Have we
gone
insane? (Note more details in Martin L. Gross, "Colleges in the New
Establishment," The End of Sanity. New York: Avon Books, 1997, pp, 107-43)
Unless we can reverse the radical domination of our colleges and
universities, it will be impossible to stop America's plunge into moral
and
intellectual disorder. It will mean the complete corruption of the
American
story and extinguishing the lights of "the city on a hill."
--
Atheism teaches that there is no God, hence no God-given rights. That
ideology coupled with a system that believed in the superiority of the
state
at the expense of the individual was murderously synergistic.
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