SEEING SOMETHING GOOD IN SECULAR UNIVERSITIES

Seeing something good in our American secular universities? Surely, I jest. Yet, we remember I Thessalonians 5:18: "In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus."

Before we draw all this together, let's look at some of the content taught at various colleges, various incidents at those colleges, and the statements of some of the professors therein:

1. American University designed sessions to teach faculty “how to assess writing without judging its quality.” (Wait. How do you grade writing without judging the quality of its grammar and spelling?)

2. "Support for traditional marriage is the same as supporting the KKK." --from a professor

3. The University of Oklahoma's Women and Gender Studies Department is sponsoring an 'Abortion is Love' event. (The insanity of this is evident.)

4. Furman University students risk an investigation by the administration if they host Halloween parties that “encourage people to wear costumes or act in ways that reinforce stereotypes or are otherwise demeaning,” under the private school’s"Acts of Intolerance" policy.

5. The Big Sky Conference honored a transgender woman as its"Female Athlete of the Week" in cross country. (The "female" athlete was a male who considered himself a female.)

6. At Evergreen State College a furious mob of students berated and shouted at the college president, at one point even angrily instructing him on the correct position in which his hands should be held while speaking.

7. A student at the University of Michigan approached a group of Turning Point USA students and began stealing the entirety of the organization’s supplies — even the cookies and hot chocolate — before dismantling the group’s recruiting table.


8. Some of the titles in the most recent issues of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion—which proclaims itself as “the top academic journal in the field of religious studies" are:

“Dona Benta’s Rosary: Managing Ambiguity in a Brazilian Women’s Prayer Group”
“Death and Demonization of a Bodhisattva: Guanyin’s Reformulation within Chinese Religion”(Do the authors of such articles actually believe that anyone cares and that anyone will spend a second reading them? Who cares?)

9. Students at the University of Pennsylvania recently swapped out a portrait of William Shakespeare for a photo of an African American lesbian poet in an effort to diversify the school's English department. Shakespeare's picture had hung over the main staircase in Penn's Fisher-Bennett Hall for years when students took it down. In place of the legendary playwright, students tacked up a photo of Audre Lorde. English department head Jed Etsy said the Shakespeare portrait will not be rehung.

10. Arizona State University Associate Dean and Professor Asao Inoue tried to make the case that using proper grammar is racist during a recent speech at Ball State University.

11. Purdue University faculty have continued to fight against plans to bring Chick-fil-A to campus.

12. Do not address your class as "Boys and Girls."

13. On the New York subway system, the speaker on the public address system does  begin with, "Ladies and Gentlemen."

14. There are 53 genders. (And you thought there were a mere 2.)

Well, that's enough of the examples of university follies, yet parents are paying thousands and students are incurring huge debts for all this. How in the world can we be thankful for this howling-at-the-moon-madness?

We can when we realize that, of all things, our university system is giving us and any other rational person an example of the truthfulness of Scripture and another piece of evidence that God does indeed exist. How so?

All these once prestigious institutions are giving testimony by their pronouncements that the Bible is true. In Proverbs 1:8, we read "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge." Since there is no fear of God ("fear of the Lord" is a positive response to God and His Word) on the secular campus and in the classes, what would we expect? No God, no wisdom. The above examples are only the tip of the no-wisdom iceberg on our campuses. 

We find the summation of the matter in Psalm 2: 4: "He who sits in the heavens laughs,
The Lord scoffs at them," and in Psalm 76:10: "For the wrath of man shall praise You." Little do they know that by their very wise-in-their-own-eyes-pronouncements-of-foolishness, they're verifying His Word!