There’s an obvious irony here—employed too often to be surprising—in which people begin by protesting in the name of diversity against centralized authority, and later discover, once they’re in charge, how useful those old forms of authority can be in controlling diversity.
The Georgetown ban
Monday August 28, 2006
Georgetown University, a Jesuit school pretending to be a Catholic one, has kicked six Evangelical student groups off campus. I'm hearing that the problem is the Evangelical students didn't want to kowtow to the official Protestant ministers appointed by the university, who are, I'm told, quite liberal. Jody Bottum's got the best take on this, but what it comes down to is that Georgetown isn't giving the Evangelicals the boot because they're not Catholic; it's giving them the boot because they are Christian. As Bottum puts it:
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Why can't either or both proselytize and try and convert the other? If the school advertises itself as a place for the free exchange of ideas, of course they should be able to do so.>
**** Why can't either or both proselytize and try and convert the other? If the school advertises itself as a place for the free exchange of ideas, of course they should be able to do so.****
Rome for FREE idea exchange?
Have you READ any history books ever?
If Rome is about one thing, it is CONTROL and putting you under their thumb. It has ALWAYS been thus, and will always remain so.
Hindus? Sure! Muslims? Sure! Buddhists? Of course!
Christians?
NO WAY, we are not THAT open to "Heretics"....you can be as pagan as you want to be, but do NOT bring those crazy bible people onto our campus messing up the minds of little Pedro and Maria with ideas like Faith Alone, Bible Alone, and FREE grace and salvation!! Whaddya wanna do....turn them into them thar Fundeymentalistics??
{ they should be so lucky...}>
Why can't either or both proselytize and try and convert the other?
Because Georgetown is a Catholic university?
Where do people get the idea that religious liberty should prevail on the campus of a Catholic university?
Evangelicals kicked off a Catholic campus? Good, I say: less worry about Catholic kids converting to evangelicalism (it's unlikely that they would convert to mainline Protestantism). Bottum even notes in his First Things blurb that the evangelicals in question were told last year not to proselytize to members of other faith groups. Is it possible that they were expelled because they did not abide by this restriction?>
Yeah, real Catholic.>
Yeah, real Catholic.
Yes, Georgetown has its issues but this frankly isn't one of them. Not everything they do is wrong. We should be thanking them for giving the evangelicals the boot, not attacking them.
Not that I would ever send one of my children to Georgetown, but if one of them went there, I would feel better knowing that there were no official evangelical ministries on campus.>
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