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Atheist philosopher warns against ‘illiberal liberalism’ at universities
John Gray was writing for the Unherd website about his concerns that “illiberal liberalism” is pervasive in university culture.
He said students are told disagreement is wrong and that anyone who departs “from the prevailing progressive consensus is not just mistaken but malevolent”.
‘Dogma’
Gray, who has written books on atheism and religions, made his comments under the title “Why the humanities can’t be saved”.
He said that in previous years humanities subjects helped students stretch their mind in ways that would be useful for working life.
But now “progressive dogmas” are passed down as “self-evident truths” despite them having “zero utility in the world”.
Worldview
Gray warned that freedom of mind is being lost and quipped: “Losing the ability to think while attending a university may be considered a misfortune. Incurring fifty or sixty thousand pounds of debt in order to do so looks like carelessness.”
He went on to consider the reasons for this and said that the “metamorphosis in liberalism that has occurred over the past generation has played a role”.
Gray said instead of being tolerant, “it has become a persecutory orthodoxy that tolerates no view of the world other than its own”.
The philosopher's claims are so true that I never planned to work in higher education. I landed in situations where I could teach freely, and the student response has been quite positive. I even taught critical thinking as a required course and many classes based upon that certification. (I took a test to allow me to take a course to qualify me to teach critical thinking and related courses.)
However, I experienced the one-sided assumptions of liberal schools (Yale, Notre Dame) and much worse in WELS-ELS-LCMS-CLC (sic). I was allowed to speak independently in college, YDS, and ND. But church institutions are more Stalinistic than Stalin's own era was.
Are Lutherans less genocidal than Stalin, working with a religious insurance company to make America safe for abortions, late-term abortions (infanticide), and worse?
Wherever the Left takes hold, thinking stops. That is why people are abandoning the news organizations tied to specific politicians and political agencies. No one seems to notice this, but people are abandoning the synods large and small at the same time.
Contradictory Dogmas of the Left-wing Lutherans: ELCA-WELS-LCMS-ELS-CLC (sic)
- The Scriptures are the foundation for all teaching and practice, BUT their primary theologians are Karl Barth and his young mistress Charlotte Kirschbaum. This gangrenous Barth influence comes through Fuller Seminary and high-toned modern theological centers.
- Martin Luther is a great, Biblical theologian, BUT they have grown beyond that Medieval monk.
- The Book of Concord is second only to the Bible as a norm, BUT it is "boring and irrelevant," as one WELS leader said so succinctly.
- Once a year, sola fide is spoken in quavering tones, BUT they teach Justification without Faith and continue to circle around the same Calvinistic and Pietistic arguments. Their position puts ELCA in the same stall with WELS-LCMS-ELS-CLC (sic).
- They are proud of their Lutheran heritage, BUT they kneel before every possible heretic, some of those celebrities already disgraced by their conduct and their doctrine
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| They have kissed up to all these false teachers, BUT only for the best of reasons. |
