Featured Fundamentalists least educated

OK.....let it go now.... please. Don't get obsessed like some of these creatures floating around here.

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The name "Fundamentalist" has become a pejorative among many Christians. I have always considered myself a fundamentalist in that belief in certain fundamentals of the Faith are the marks of a "true believer"!. I once posted, a thread I think, on the Fundamentalist Forum asking for a definition. Did not get anywhere, obsessed I guess!:smilewinkgrin: And cleaned!

 

They had to do a study for this? Everybody knows that the "educated" folks have always felt that conservative fundamentalists were uneducated and that's why they hold the views that they do.

It is very telling how some feel if you don't have a college degree that you are somehow uneducated yet with all of their degrees, they still reject Christ.

We need to PROPERLY re-educate the so called well educated.

 

Zaac,

Something is haywire! This is the second post of yours with which I concur, in as many days I believe.

 

:smilewinkgrin: I told yall a long time ago that I'm probably the most conservative person on this board when it comes to God's word. Not many seem to hear that though because many think I'm pro-homosexual, pro-Obama, pro-choice and pro-Democrat and pro everything else.

And no matter how many times I have expressed the contrary, people often confuse my distaste for the place politics has taken in the lives of Christians as my distaste for a position on issues of morality. :laugh:

 

Ha,ha!

 

Perhaps I should amend my statement from "always" to for the last 30 or 40 years. :laugh:

All one has to do to see this is to show up for a lecture in any state university. Or just watch MSNBC or one of the extremely liberally biased news programs. The conversations often seem to try to portray anyone who holds to a conservative Christian worldview, as backwoods, uneducated and engaged to his first cousin.

I can't even count the number of times that I've heard "they just need to be educated about the truth" when they are really saying "they need to be scientifically shown that those stories in that old book have been corrupted and disproven by our science and knowledge."

Be that as it may, I still feel that completion of high school and college have very little to do with education anymore. Otherwise we wouldn't be turning out so many absolute idiots into society.

 

According to who?
Your data is skewed; not accurate.
I posted some of this in another thread.
First, those who call themselves atheists are often those who work in scientific fields and because of peer pressure will call themselves atheists. A belief in evolution will compel them to. They may have Ph.d.'s; in fact many of them do. Many of them will be atheists teaching as professors in their respective fields in secular universities.
So what! This does not prove anything.

A Ph.d. is not a coveted degree among pastors. It is not necessary and does not mean one is "educated." Many of our pastors have B.A.'s and are self-taught, M.A.'s and M.Div's. Many have reputable D.D.'s given on behalf of their service and accomplishments rendered.

As far as high school is considered it is doubtful that Barna takes into consideration the "home-schooled" population, which is the fastest growing movement in America, and the most popular method of education among evangelicals. There are also many unregistered home-schools that operate under the auspices of the local church. They receive a grade twelve diploma, not from the government, but one equivalent or of much more value than what the public school system could ever give out. And the community recognizes this.
In many areas of America the public school system is failing and graduating functional illiterates. Both home-schools and Christian schools do far better than that. Your data is skewed.

 

Now that is a different question.

Yes, I do think we should do better. I think we should do a better job of educating our children, not just educating, but preparing them for life. I don’t think this is something we can simply put off on government schools as their responsibility. I think we need to take responsibility for our own children and prepare them to both make a living and defend their faith. But I don’t think we can measure that with diplomas and degrees.

The idea that every child needs to go to college is an invention of our government schools. But within the Fundamental Baptist world we have made it worse with some of our home grown Bible Colleges. Worse than the high school drop-out is the home school or Christian school graduate who thinks they have the knowledge they need to make it in this world.

 

I have to agree with what is posted here. According to the government, I have a GED, as I graduated homeschooled. In my 10th grade year, I took a placement test and was graded at or above college levels in math, science, and reading comprehension/vocabulary.

I am not puffing myself up. "But for the grace of God." My point is, I am above average intelligence, yet would be thrown into the category of those who did not receive a HS diploma. So the report is definitely skewed.

 

That doesn't mean he has his facts right. "Stats" can be made to say anything a person wants them to say.

Again, that is not necessarily a "fact." It is a statistic, and no doubt a skewed statistic, not very accurate as is demonstrated by Sapper Woody.
Have you ever read the book: "Why Johnny Can't Read?" It is not speaking of Fundamentalism or even evangelicalism.

The true "fact" is that many universities and colleges are more apt to receive a home-schooled individual than a public-schooled individual. They have had experience with the general state of public education in America.

You have no actual evidence to back up your rant. That is all it is--a rant.

 

I'm a bit confused here. Exactly why do I , for the sake of the Gospel and completing the Great Commission, need to be educated by the world? What will a bachelors degree do for me in terms of God's truth? In fact, the time spent pursuing a college degree in a lot of colleges today seems to be more of a miseducating rather than an educating.

Can you expound on this?

Not sure what this is about. But I don't think you have to go to college to be educated. My granddad never went to college or finished high school for that matter. He was one of the smartest folks I ever met. And I think there are a lot of folks around like that.

Now THIS I agree with. But I think the church's failure is due to a lack of LOVE, not bachelors degrees.

 

This is serious research, not just some guy's polling and stats thrown quickly together. Read it carefully:

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http://publicschoolsreport.com/resources/news/quality-of-education-in-public-schools/

I am sure that are Christian home-schoolers and Christian schools are doing far better than that.

 

But what DHK mentioned here

is worth repeating.

There are a lot of folks getting degrees and pursuing knowledge. That doesn't make them educated. Schooled, yes. But definitely not educated. :laugh:

Well, if they are learned enough to be able to walk someone through the plan of salvation, I'll start teaching them to read and write if they so desire.:smilewinkgrin: