tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33145704.post5735913429622568436..comments2012-09-14T11:09:07.058-07:00Comments on Life In Utah: Dealing with Nonthinking Professors at a Public CollegeEric Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536344370124718654noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33145704.post-37805920758161998112010-11-19T11:45:15.262-08:002010-11-19T11:45:15.262-08:00Teaching global warming and advocating for conserv...Teaching global warming and advocating for conservation does not equal teaching Christianity.<br />One is a religious belief, which is not appropriate in a public school setting. The other is not. If you think teaching about conservation/ environmentalism/being a liberal= teaching about Christianity, you are just simply wrong.<br />If you wanted to stand up at a public college and espouse your Elizabethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33145704.post-88641968445796461102010-09-11T06:50:50.224-07:002010-09-11T06:50:50.224-07:00For close to two decades, I taught at a Christian ...For close to two decades, I taught at a Christian school, most of the years in Bible. Trust me, I have presuppositions, just like anyone else. But I believe, even in a conservative school, to allow both sides their time. In apologetics, I played the role of an atheist professor who visited the class 4 or 5 times. There were no straw man arguments given. It was "as is." And we took fieldEric Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536344370124718654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33145704.post-39324368800509238442010-09-11T01:10:40.594-07:002010-09-11T01:10:40.594-07:00There are uproars on both sides, because people di...There are uproars on both sides, because people disagree. That's life. Some don't want to hear about evolution. Some don't want to hear about religion, not just Christianity in general. And if it were elementary school, or maybe even high school, this would be a far different matter. But it's not about the 'kids making up their own minds' on the college level. You can'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33145704.post-34868112804682857642010-09-10T14:59:04.044-07:002010-09-10T14:59:04.044-07:00Anonymous (and I'm not sure if you're the ...Anonymous (and I'm not sure if you're the same as the previous "Anonymous"), I disagree with you about liberals. It's fascinating how, if a Christian were to lay out what I proposed in my blog (that Jesus was the only way and I was here to convince you), there would be an uproar. "How dare he do that in a public school! Hasn't he heard of separation of church and Eric Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536344370124718654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33145704.post-749154895590889772010-09-10T13:46:37.658-07:002010-09-10T13:46:37.658-07:00"Why are liberals so narrow-minded?"
ht..."Why are liberals so narrow-minded?"<br /><br />http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/liberal<br /><br />See, in particular, #'s 7 & 8. Also see synonyms. It has been my experience that liberals are far more (with emphasis) <i>liberal</i> and <i>open-minded</i> than the majority of people such as yourself.<br /><br />stubborn? certainly. but narrow-minded, by definition, and inAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33145704.post-65270417175202065812010-09-06T17:22:46.473-07:002010-09-06T17:22:46.473-07:00I normally wouldn't allow an anonymous person ...I normally wouldn't allow an anonymous person to post--just tell us who you are, no judgments--but I'll let it post anyway so I can answer publicly.<br /><br />The problem here, with the views of pandeism or panentheism, is that you have an identical universe and God. God becomes the creation, and He is not distinct from His creation. You also have a problem with an infinite God being Eric Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536344370124718654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33145704.post-72298153716161626662010-09-06T17:01:20.618-07:002010-09-06T17:01:20.618-07:00Ah, but what about pandeism, which combines the st...Ah, but what about pandeism, which combines the strengths of deism and pantheism to overcome the weaknesses they exhibit individually: to wit, ours is a created Universe, but our Creator has become the Creation in order to fulfill the experience of it; and so things are <i>not</i> illusory at all, they are as we perceive them, but our perception is only a limited view of all that is to be Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com