U. Texas professor releases "How to Stay Christian in College"

[Bluebear]

Notice the first sentence, which KWTX (Waco Temple Killeen) presents as FACT.
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Young Christians entering college can expect to find their faith under assault from both professors and fellow students.

That's why University of Texas Professor J. Budziszewski has written "How to Stay Christian in College" and "Ask Me Anything: Provocative Answers for College Students."

He says both books are designed to give incoming freshmen the intellectual grounding and practical advice they'll need, not only to keep the faith, but also to grow as Christians.

http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/1785297.html

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. Wow, no wonder UT is so often considered the leading world university.

This "Bud"'s for you, eh?

[Bluebear]

2. You know those liberal professors. Always attacking Christians.

:eyes:

[China_cat]

5. Yep, those science classes are

only there to make doubters out of the faithful.

[kestrel91316]

14. I don't know why they are complaining. Nobody MAKES them go to

college. And there are plenty of colleges that won't "force" those awful Satanic ideas like evolution, and the theory of relativity, and biochemistry on them.

They won't be satisfied until ALL universities are just like Bob Jones "University".

[ComerPerro]

18. Ahh, Bob Jones Univeristy

which had a ban on interracial dating until 2001, and even now their official policy is that it has to have the approval of both parents.

[Swamp Rat]

8. What are we gonna do?!?

:scared:

I saw Horowitz on FOX saying that were are doomed if we don't get rid of all the 'librul' professors. :puke:



edit: Hey Horrorwitz! I am a 'librul' professor and I'm on a mission from gawd: I am turning all your 'murkin' children into artsy, gay, socialists! :rofl:

[China_cat]

16. Get rid of the 'librul' professors just like Adolf did?

[Fovea]

3. OH NO!

What's a heathen to do?

I guess it doesn't matter anymore. I'll forget the crusades, the inquisition, easter island, the 30 years war, Avignon, Jan Huss, Jonestown, Fred Phelps, the whole nine yards...

Or maybe not.

[Cassandra]

4. Am I the only one who wants to rewrite...

Waco as Wacko?

[jobycom]

6. Wow, that's odd for UT, once considered one of the most liberal campuses

in the nation.

Oh well, one wacko does not a school make.

Although, frankly, even while I was still going there, that school had fallen drastically. In the 80s it focused on academics. But the time I left it in the mid 90s, it had switched emphasis to winning a national championship in football. They literally tore up some of the few parking spaces students could use and built a practice field for the kicker. Just the kicker. He couldn't practice on the same field as the rest of the team, apparently, so they built a fifty yard field, much narrower, with a goal post, just to train the kicker.

Academics get in the way of their sports fantasies, apparently, though they do still allow students to study if they don't get in the way. They just can't park anywhere.

So I hope Bud is a stupid rarity, but I don't know anymore.

[western mass]

7. Translation: How to stay ignorant...

in a crazy environment of facts and critical thinking.

[niallmac]

11. Put fingers in ears and say "La La La La La La"

...any number of La's will do.

[BQueen]

9. Hmmm

Don't take Logic 101....
Don't take History courses dealing with any of the massive killing, enslavement or general misogyny done in the name of the Church...
Place hands over ears and chant "Jesus told me not to hear you!" over and over again if anyone speaks positively of other religions in *conflict* with strict Southern Baptist dogma.
I'm sure there are more, but you see where I'm going with this.

I wonder if he has connections with Campus Crusade for Christ, since he mentions kids "shouldn't go it alone..." and says to join a group. That CCC is scary - like Amway for Christ, and it preys on the lonely, sets up at every college campus and military base. It's outreach is all touchy-feely, but it's mission statement is pure Southern Baptist, Bible as literal word, shun unbelievers etc...lots of long-time RW people in on the ground floor -- sounded like network building to me. Although at least two people I know think it's more like a cult...

[Alcibiades]

12. Right

I'm also heartened by the way you make the distinction between Southern Baptists and Christians generally. Southern Baptists have been calling themselves "Christian" for ages, using the term in such a way as to exclude other folks whose Christian credentials are equally plausible (i.e., Roman Catholics.) This, of course, is a Big Lie.

This blurring has also taken place in the way Republicans use the concept of "people of faith." This implies that doctrinal differences don't matter, and that there is only faith versus non-faith, which is a polemical opposition designed to align themselves with the majority. Of course, if doctrine really didn't matter, they would do away with doctrine, but of course, they don't: doctrine defines each religion and makes it distinctive. There is no such thing as faith in general, or people of faith, only "faiths" and "people of different faiths."

This is a gap we can drive a truck through. Sorry if it's off-topic, but it just struck me that the way BQueen calls a spade a spade in calling Southern Baptists what they are rather than "Christians" is the way we have to go if we are to win these culture wars.

[Alcibiades]

10. It could be lazy journalism

I get the feeling this one came straight from a press release sent out by the author or his publisher. A lot of the young wannabe "journalists" I've met (and that's probably who it is who is assigned the duty of typing press releases up into stories for their webpage) are pretty much a bunch or morans (I say this only as an ex-wannabe journalist type myself). Can you imagine the caliber of journalism intern who works at the TV station in Waco? A local kid, to be sure, and probably not the brightest light.

A lot of these budding journalism types have never been told (much less figured out on their own) that the press release is not their friend, that they should be skeptical of it, and that they would certainly not run text from the press release as content for their reporting.

[salin]

13. advice point number one should be:

1) Stay away from superficial religious organizations that tout behaviors that are antithetical to the teachings of Christ. Sure these groups sound good and feel good (as in "belonging") but once they start touting a self-righteous attitude towards others that borders or crosses over into hatred - then that is a sure sign that the group will lead you further from Christ.

Guessing that isn't included in the prof.s list.

[silverlib]

15. Robert Jensen, UT Professor of Journalism

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/home.htm

This book was probably written in contrast to this wonderful professor. He stands up to our government, is present at almost every protest, has been to Crawford to support protests, and is an absolutely great tenured professor, so he can't be "touched" by the likes of this guy.

[Bluebear]

17. Good karma on the Professor! n/t