Front page headline story from my local newspaper today.


Falwell plans coalition

Ron Brown / Lynchburg News & Advance
November 9, 2004


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The Rev. Jerry Falwell plans to stoke the fires of a national evangelical political movement while passing the torch of day-to-day operations of Thomas Road Baptist Church and Liberty University to his two sons.

Falwell will attempt to resurrect his national political profile by forming a Moral Majority-style group, which will be called The Faith and Values Coalition.

 

Hmmm...I heard today that the turn-out of evangelical voters in this election wasn't any greater than their turn-out in the 2000 election.

 

This stuff is very scary to me, Darlene

Almost all religion-centric colleges scare me.....the sole exception being the excellent quasi-Quaker institutions (Swarthmore, Haverford in the Philly area) b/c they do not 'push' any agenda at all

Although many parents might disagree, I feel that a 'open' learning environment will help a young person to adopt THEIR OWN spiritual groundings. My daughter graduated from Swarthmore; learned social responsibility and critical thinking there; spent some years in the 'real world'; and is now in a seminary in LegalBillLand But she'll still fight with her father

 

Jerry,

Why do you automatically assume that an evangelical founded university would "brainwash" their students? There are many fine schools which provide a quality education. Graduates from these schools also come out with their own spiritual grounding and critical thinking skills.

 

[QUOTE=paS2K,Nov 10 2004, 05:30 PM] Almost all religion-centric colleges scare me.....the sole exception being the excellent quasi-Quaker institutions (Swarthmore, Haverford in the Philly area) b/c they do not 'push' any agenda at all

 

I think that a lot of people tend to believe the media stereotypes about evangelicals. (No, I am not one )

 

Hmmmm....some good points, but most of the Evangelicals that we know (5-6 couples all over the MidAtlantic states) DO (unfortunately) fit the stereotypes:

1) Jesus is the only way to salvation
2) Their definition of the start of 'life' is the only one
3) Gay/lesbian is an abberation and not tolerated in their church's organization

Let me also explain that: My wife works at our church and both of our family backgrounds are religion-based: forebears who were ministers (in VA ) and missionaries, aunts who were strong WCTU advocates. Our roots include a lot of old-tyme religion...

These same friends have tended to send their children to church-related colleges. Am I wrong in understanding that most of these schools have mandatory religion classes and often mandatory chapel services? There's nothing wrong with any of that....except the mandatory part.

 

Actually, most church related schools do not have mandatory religion classes (unless you are in the seminary ). My sister attended Pat Robertson's Regent University Law School and has yet to burn a witch (dinner a couple of times but she was never a great cook).

 

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[QUOTE=paS2K,Nov 10 2004, 06:48 PM] Hmmmm....some good points, but most of the Evangelicals that we know (5-6 couples all over the MidAtlantic states) DO (unfortunately) fit the stereotypes:

1) Jesus is the only way to salvation
2) Their definition of the start of 'life' is the only one
3) Gay/lesbian is an abberation and not tolerated in their church's organization

Let me also explain that: My wife works at our church and both of our family backgrounds are religion-based: forebears who were ministers (in VA ) and missionaries, aunts who were strong WCTU advocates.