Fundamentalism's Threat to Human Life
Feeling Strains, Baptist Colleges Cut Church Ties
By ALAN FINDER
The issues vary from state to state, but many include
battles over money and control of boards of trustees.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/education/22baptist.html?th&emc=th
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The nub of the problem here is succinctly expressed by David W. Key, director of Baptist Studies at the Candler School of Theology at Emory: "The real underlying issue is that fundamentalism in the Southern Baptist form is incompatible with higher education... In fundamentalism, you have all the truths. In education, you’re searching for truths."
Sadly what we are seeing among our world's religions generally is a dangerous degeneration into primitive fundamentalism -- the radical Islamic Jihadists, the war mongering right wing Protestants, the Catholics who denigrate women and gays and attempt to sabotage stem cell research, the Jewish assassin who murdered Yitzchak Rabin, who was Israel's best hope for peace, Bush rushing rockets to Israel.
The terrible hazard to humanity here is that these pious barbarians will get their hands on WMD and bring on the Armageddon that so many of them seem to crave. It is sad but true that the best minds had departed from the world's major religions by the end of the 20th century, leaving the remnant of decent religious people to be overwhelmed by the murderous ones.
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
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Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
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By ALAN FINDER
The issues vary from state to state, but many include
battles over money and control of boards of trustees.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/education/22baptist.html?th&emc=th
...........................................................
The nub of the problem here is succinctly expressed by David W. Key, director of Baptist Studies at the Candler School of Theology at Emory: "The real underlying issue is that fundamentalism in the Southern Baptist form is incompatible with higher education... In fundamentalism, you have all the truths. In education, you’re searching for truths."
Sadly what we are seeing among our world's religions generally is a dangerous degeneration into primitive fundamentalism -- the radical Islamic Jihadists, the war mongering right wing Protestants, the Catholics who denigrate women and gays and attempt to sabotage stem cell research, the Jewish assassin who murdered Yitzchak Rabin, who was Israel's best hope for peace, Bush rushing rockets to Israel.
The terrible hazard to humanity here is that these pious barbarians will get their hands on WMD and bring on the Armageddon that so many of them seem to crave. It is sad but true that the best minds had departed from the world's major religions by the end of the 20th century, leaving the remnant of decent religious people to be overwhelmed by the murderous ones.
--
"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
--
Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AcademicFreedom
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
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