Q&A WITH DAVID HOROWITZ
ATHEISTS DOMINATE
of bachelor’s degrees evangelicalsof bachelor’s degrees evangelicals professors who practice a differentprofessors w
have earned has climbed 133 percent,have earned has climbed 133 percent, type of evangelism in the classroom:type of evan
COLLEGE THEOLOGY
according to the National Opinionaccording to the National Opinion pushing students toward secularismpushing stu
COLLEGE PROFESSORS ROUTINELY
Research Corp.Research Corp. and the political left.and the poli
indoctrinate students with their atheistic ideas,
These trends run counter to pre-These trends run counter to pre- An anti-evangelical bias sur-An anti says David Horowitz, president of the Center for
ddictions for the past 50 years thatictions for the past 50 years that faced last year in the results of afaced last y
the Study of Popular Culture.
ssociety would become more secularociety would become more secular study that the Institute for Jewishstudy that
A best-selling author and stalwart advocate
for intellectual and religious liberty on campuses
asas it shifted from traditional values to it shifted from traditional values to and Community Research initiallyand Comm
nationwide, Horowitz warns that atheists have
eembrace modernism. The oppositembrace modernism. The opposite designed to gauge professors’ atti-designed to
taken over most college theology departments in
aappears to be taking place.ppears to be taking place. tudes toward Jews.tudes toward America. He says evangelicals must take action to
“Religion’s infl“Religion’s infl uence uence has grown,”has grown,” The unexpected fiThe unex nding was that
defend their rights.
says Lindsay, who has a masters insays Lindsay, who has a masters in 53 percent of the 1,200 college and53 percent o
What’s your take on the upsurge of evangelical
divinity from Princeton’s Theologicaldivinity from Princeton’s Theological university faculty members sampleduniversity fa
Christians on campuses?
Seminary. “It’s time for the academySeminary. “It’s time for the academy confessed to “unfavorable” feelingsconfessed t
I am all for the upsurge of student religious
to come to grips with this dynamic.” toward evangelical Christians. Thistoward evan commitment, but I would like to see these
compared with 22 percent unfavor-compared w
evangelizing organizations defend student rights
able for Muslims, 9 percent for non-able for Mu
and become an intellectual presence on college
campuses as well.
evangelical Christians, and 3 percentevangelical C
I would like to see campus evangelical
for Jews.for Jews.
organizations take up this fi ght in whatever
Despite the professors’ negative atti-Despite th manner seems appropriate to them. But they
tudes, the institutions themselves aretudes, the in
cannot continue to
putting on a tolerant, welcoming face.putting on a
ignore it without doing
irreparable harm to
College admissions policies nowCollege a
our children’s futures.
refl ect ect a “pluralistic impulse” to a “
accept “religiously committed stu-accept “reli Are college professors
However,H owever, dents,” Lindsey concludes after andents,” Lind
routinely pushing
religion still isn’t religion still isn’t exhaustive survey.exhaustive s
their students toward
secularism and
accepted universally inaccepted universally in Jeff Barneson of the Harvard Jeff Bar
political leftism?
the public square. The Rev. Graduate School Christian FellowshipGraduate Sc
Absolutely. Political
Martin O. Moran III, executiveMartin O. Moran III, executive acknowledges the evangelical surgeacknowledg leftism — aka
director of the Catholic Campusdirector of the Catholic Campus on campuses.on campuse
liberalism — is a
Ministry Association in Cincinnati,Ministry Association in Cincinnati, He concedes that he knows “moreHe conce
secular religion,
promising a kingdom
HOROWITZ Let’s
Ohio, tells Newsmax, “While we’reOhio, tells Newsmax, “While we’re faculty who are believers, and ourfaculty who
of heaven on earth
defend the students,
seeing more organized religion onseeing more organized religion on groups are generally larger than theygroups are g
— a world without
too, not just religion.
campus than the past two decades, Icampus than the past two decades, I were 20 years ago.”were 20 yea racism, sexism,
think we’re not there with acceptancethink we’re not there with acceptance Yet Barneson worries that “evan-Yet Barn
homophobia,
of evangelists on campus.”of evangelists on campus.” gelicals (on campus) may be compro-gelicals (on
inequality, war, etc. — delivered by political
operatives. I have shown in my book that there are
Similarly, the Rev. Joel Mark Similarly, the Rev. Joel Mark mised by the institutions and demon-mised by the
tens of thousands of these secular missionaries on
Solliday, editor of Campus CrossWalk strate little that is different from the
university faculties proselytizing the young.
and minister of the Northern Light prevailing culture. There isn’t much
Church of Christ in Minnesota, tells that distinguishes evangelicals from
Is the degree of intolerance toward evangelical
Newsmax, “Even where Christianity the culture in terms of racism, mate-
Christians on the college campuses of America
actually dangerous in your view?
is positively perceived, evangelism is rialism, failed marriages, neglect of
Given what I have shown in The Professors about
often not.” the poor, etc.
the aggressive agendas of radical faculty, the
Solliday concludes, “Tolerance for “So, if evangelicals don’t distin- answer is yes. I described several attacks by
Christianity may rise or fall (but) intol- guish themselves and aren’t chal-
professors on Christian students in their classes.
OM
erance for evangelism will increase.” lenging the culture in any particular
In the last 30 years, the departments of
theology at every major university have been taken
S
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Christianity’s reception on cam- way (except maybe with gay marriage
T
O over and are now run by atheists. The Religious
puses involves not only students but and abortion), there isn’t any reason
Studies Department at the University of
also their teachers. Conservative eco- to be harsh with them. It seems like Pennsylvania devoted an entire seminar on “Great
ORLD PHO
nomics professor Walter Williams of evangelicals mostly just blend into
Religious Thinkers” to the writings of the rapper
George Mason University in Fairfax, the culture, whether it is the campus
Tupac Shakur, a convicted rapist.
— By Dave Eberhart
ZUMA WIRE W Va., has written extensively about or the suburbs,” he says.
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