One of the main storylines in a popular fictional Christian movie last year called “God’s Not Dead” featured an atheist philosophy professor who, on the first day of class, tells his students: “I would like to bypass the senseless debate altogether and jump to the conclusion that every sophomore is already aware of – there is no God.”
The professor required his students to write a statement disavowing God with three specific words – “God is dead” – and the movie follows one student who refuses to do so.
I thought of this movie recently when a student writer for The College Fix recently reported on a philosophy professor who is visiting campuses giving guest lectures that argue the God of Christianity represents immorality. His talk is titled: “If a God Exists, Then Anything is Permissible.”
Not surprisingly, he is also a faculty advisor for the Secular Student Alliance club.
Taken on its own, it’s just one professor giving a few talks, and they’re not even mandatory. But still, one can’t help but wonder if his personal opinions influence his classes.
And another thing, why is it universities seem to openly and actively despise Christianity in general?
Late last month, The College Fix had a lengthy investigative piece on the effects of a new policy in the massive, 23-campus California State University system that essentially hinders Christian campus clubs’ ability to be a part of their communities:
The Christian clubs are not allowed to set up tables and pass out fliers in the quad, or showcase themselves during recruitment drives, or hang posters in dorms. They’ve been scrubbed from campus websites and directories. They are charged a more expensive, outsider fee to rent rooms on campus – straining their already tight coffers. They’ve lost a chance to receive a portion of student fees collected to help clubs on campuses thrive.
All this was done, by the way, in the name of fighting “discrimination.” And now the clubs’ visibility and membership numbers have sagged – bigtime.
There are countless examples of bias against Christianity on campus chronicled in The College Fix. Nearly once a week we touch on the subject, from the student who was told to stop talking about Jesus in the quad because he did not have permission to preach and he might offend someone to the professor who had his students write the word Jesus on a piece of paper and then stomp on it.
In 2012, The College Fix looked at hundreds of religious studies classes at universities across the nation and uncovered that, for the most part, professors prefer to snub the subject of who Jesus was and what he preached. Classes that are focused on Christianity, meanwhile, tip-toe around or altogether avoid the topic of Christ’s teachings.
The truth is, Jesus is one of the most offensive topics to secular administrators and educators. Don’t be surprised, even Jesus said: “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.”