Comments on: The sky is falling: Blame the Christians – New column https://wthrockmorton.com/2007/11/02/the-sky-is-falling-blame-the-christians-new-column/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:43:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: ken https://wthrockmorton.com/2007/11/02/the-sky-is-falling-blame-the-christians-new-column/#comment-65997 Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:43:45 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//2007/11/02/the-sky-is-falling-blame-the-christians-new-column/#comment-65997 Warren said in post 60911:

Who are fundamentalist evangelical Christians?

Well I can’t speak for the author, so you’d have to ask him directly. However, for myself, I consider fundamentalists to be the extreme conservatives. The type that want to legislate the bible. Or who only value science as long as it confirms their interpretation of the bible, but consider anything contradictory to their interpretation to be wrong (ex. evolutionary theory).

The most inclusiive reading of this would be the 60 million who identify as evangelicals.

Why do you presume the most inclusive reading must be used? And that all who identify as evangelical would also identify as fundamentalist (by whatever they consider fundamentalist to mean)?

]]> By: Warren https://wthrockmorton.com/2007/11/02/the-sky-is-falling-blame-the-christians-new-column/#comment-65996 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:53:11 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//2007/11/02/the-sky-is-falling-blame-the-christians-new-column/#comment-65996 Who are fundamentalist evangelical Christians? The most inclusiive reading of this would be the 60 million who identify as evangelicals. A subset, I suppose, but a large one.

]]> By: ken https://wthrockmorton.com/2007/11/02/the-sky-is-falling-blame-the-christians-new-column/#comment-65995 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:04:30 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//2007/11/02/the-sky-is-falling-blame-the-christians-new-column/#comment-65995 Warren said:

he connects problems in our nation’s education system with Christian lemmings.

His comments were no about christians in general. Nor about evangelical christians nor fundementalist christians, but about fundementalist, evangelical christians (with a few more qualifiers added on).

Additionally, he was not saying that the educational problems were caused by this subset of christians in the US, but would be worse than the problems caused by this subset of christians.

]]> By: Marty https://wthrockmorton.com/2007/11/02/the-sky-is-falling-blame-the-christians-new-column/#comment-65994 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:59:30 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//2007/11/02/the-sky-is-falling-blame-the-christians-new-column/#comment-65994 Good response Dr. T.

Clearly the author (not to mention Norm’s comment) shows just how ignorant of and out of touch with mainstream middle-american christianity the left coast really is.

I suppose they are just as afraid of the stereotypes about “us”, as we are about the stereotypes about “them”.

]]> By: Warren https://wthrockmorton.com/2007/11/02/the-sky-is-falling-blame-the-christians-new-column/#comment-65993 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:23:55 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com//2007/11/02/the-sky-is-falling-blame-the-christians-new-column/#comment-65993 Norm – you’ll have to ask him if it is good to private school. He seemed to promote it. I have not come to that place yet although I would consider it if my local school was failing my kids. As it is we spend lots of time at home anyway — and we have pretty good schools here — very good actually.

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