Survey by the Institute for Jewish and Community Research

The institute’s director and chief pollster, Gary Tobin, did a survey of university faculty members among a sample of 1,200 university faculty members. Tobin asked professors at all kinds of colleges (public, private, secular, religious, 2 year, 4 year, etc) to rate their feelings towards various religious groups from very warm to very cool or unfavorable. The purpose of his survey was to measure anti-Semitism. What he found that one group was considered “unfavorable” by a majority. That group is evangelical Christians. I will get to Lindsey Lohan later.

This article can be found on Saturday May 5th's Washington Post. The article goes on to gauge the opinion of several leaders of the faculty around the country. All of these folks felt that this would not bias a professor against a student and that some of this was the fault of evangelicals who have supported the Republican party. Gary Tobin who did the poll found it quite interesting that if any poll had returned these kind of numbers against Jews, Blacks, Homosexuals, etc, the response would have been different. “No one would attempt to justify or explain those feelings. No one would say, ‘The reason they feel this way is because the don’t like the politics of blacks or the politics of Jews.’ That would be unthinkable.”

When Danielle and I were on vacation, we saw via cable one of the recent popular movies, “Mean Girls.” The movie is about a girl who is home schooled but then goes to high school where she has to deal with the different divisions among students – Geeks, Goths, Plastics, etc. The film opens up with her explaining how she was home schooled. She explains that it was not because her parents were religious. At this point the film goes to a shot of a caricature of a rural white Christian family with rural Southern accents. In the poorly dressed large family, the little boy explains that he believes that God created guns on the second day with the dinosaurs. Obviously this is supposed to be humorous but for what other ethnic or religious group would this type of humor be deemed appropriate? Ironically, the moral of the movie was not judge people by their appearances and to just be yourself. Probably with the footnote that you leave the God of the Bible outside.

Christianity is about Jesus and is therefore exclusive. This belief is blasphemy in our society where the cult of individual holds sway. Jesus came to the world with the purpose of dying and submitting Himself for the people of God. He preached that He would be crucified, rise on the third day and return to judge the people and the nations. Those who refuse to believe and submit to the true king, Jesus, will be condemned and left to face God's judgement alone. They will be punished for their sins till God's justice is fully served. This is the “Global Warming” that people should fear. The Bible calls it the day of the Lamb's wrath. An image that would be open to mockery if the subject was not so serious. Believe or believe not but there is no middle ground.