Great article. His pious Christian parents (and others like them) have done far more than most SJWs have done for the forgotten, the downtrodden, the pariahs, and those otherwise living in the shadows (cf. Luke 1:79).
There's the oft-repeated secular mythos that university is the perfect time to explore who we are, who we will become, what life is all about, how to become fuller human beings, and so on.
I suppose there's a grain of truth in that idea. However, that's not or shouldn't be tethered to the university. Rather, that's simply coming of age. Or so I would think.
Besides, even on its own terms, one can't necessarily "explore" who we are and so on in a mere span of four years. That's arguably a lifelong journey. That's arguably a journey that's not limited to university lectures and professors. At best, a university offers a small sliver of what's available in the totality of life and the universe.
In any case, most universities, including our most elite universities, are only really selling secularism, which doesn't exactly deliver on these hopes and promises anyway, to say the least! Secularism may tantalize and tease, but it doesn't ultimately quench or sate.
A far better candidate to both pursue and fulfill these yearnings for meaning and our place in the universe would be a Bible college or seminary. Short of this, many secular universities have evangelical Christian groups with a presence on or near campus, though secular universities are doing their level best to throw Christians off campus, just like the many towns that the apostles visited threw them out.
Great article. His pious Christian parents (and others like them) have done far more than most SJWs have done for the forgotten, the downtrodden, the pariahs, and those otherwise living in the shadows (cf. Luke 1:79).
ReplyDeleteClay Routledge has a good NYT article on suicide too.
DeleteThere's the oft-repeated secular mythos that university is the perfect time to explore who we are, who we will become, what life is all about, how to become fuller human beings, and so on.
DeleteI suppose there's a grain of truth in that idea. However, that's not or shouldn't be tethered to the university. Rather, that's simply coming of age. Or so I would think.
Besides, even on its own terms, one can't necessarily "explore" who we are and so on in a mere span of four years. That's arguably a lifelong journey. That's arguably a journey that's not limited to university lectures and professors. At best, a university offers a small sliver of what's available in the totality of life and the universe.
In any case, most universities, including our most elite universities, are only really selling secularism, which doesn't exactly deliver on these hopes and promises anyway, to say the least! Secularism may tantalize and tease, but it doesn't ultimately quench or sate.
A far better candidate to both pursue and fulfill these yearnings for meaning and our place in the universe would be a Bible college or seminary. Short of this, many secular universities have evangelical Christian groups with a presence on or near campus, though secular universities are doing their level best to throw Christians off campus, just like the many towns that the apostles visited threw them out.