Christian Clarity Review

God tells the unconditionally elect they were wicked. They bend the knee and bow before God thankful He has saved them from the wickedness and genuinely birthed them again as new creation in Jesus Christ expressly by telling them of Himself and giving them Himself as Word and Spirit.

God tells Satan he is wicked. Satan responds “Oh. No. That’s not fair. There’s been some confusion. You don’t understand.” –and goes right on in his wickedness.

Pretty standard stuff from the anti-Christ’s of the PCUSA. Seems they think, in their deception of ‘free’ will of course, that liberals are fundamentally ‘more’ capable of thinking new thoughts and accepting new things than ‘conservatives.’ Supposedly, liberals are experts at ‘how’ to ‘use’ the ‘free’ will.

As if it existed at all.

That would explain their belligerence against Jesus Christ as accepting sodomy, abortion and all wickedness and consorting with Hezbollah AS the Church and turning their version of ‘church’ into an organ of anti-Christ that is pumping out lies as ‘love’ into the world with twice the zeal they ever had even for their false gospel of ‘free’ will.

What an amazing bit of word widgetry anti-Christ has wrought through this one man as an encapsulation of the liberal/anti-Christ mind: “I know better than you because I am not you. Becuase I am a liberal, I am by definition (that I teach to my students and hire others to do the same) more qualified to tell you ‘how’ you should use your ‘free’ will in every area/sub-field of life. I’m ‘hoping’ for your scholastic success and I will be the sole arbiter of deciding when and if it exists –or not — based on your reaction to what I say is Truth. My ‘free’ will is in fact a bit ‘free-er’ than yours. I am Teacher.”

Anti-Christ through him has the bald faced deceit to name his article “Leave politics Out of Faculty Hiring” as if there was none already even as he plainly has a bias (and is proud of it so as to have worked out an explanation he is plainly deceived is thorough and truthful) toward hiring liberals and teaching liberalism/anti-Christ even as he simultaneously denies it.

Leave Politics Out of Faculty Hiring Choices

To suggest that any individual or legislature would improve the world’s finest system of higher education by deliberately injecting politics into considerations of who should be hired to teach (and tenured) is folly. Smart men and women work all their lives to become competent in one of the hundreds of sub-fields into which higher education is now divided (e.g., bioinformatics, medieval French history, architecture). Political leanings have no place in recruiting faculty in any college or university known to me. Nor have I found, in my nearly 30 years as an administrator in four colleges and universities, public and private, evidence of classroom proselytizing or intimidation. Of course, faculty occasionally comment about presidents - Democratic and Republican - and about current events and popular culture, too, but only in passing, not to sway students to a particular point of view.

Now, I have no doubt that most colleges have more Democrats than Republicans on the faculty, and more liberals (if that means those who question the status quo) than conservatives (if that means those who would maintain the current order). Faculty members are generally more liberal than they are conservative - though not always by a long shot.

Why is this so? Because, faculty members - especially those in the humanities and social sciences - have the responsibility to help their students develop “critical thinking,” thinking that questions nearly everything and poses arguments for how the world does work and should work. Such teaching inevitably questions the status quo.

In addition, the teacher is committed by his or her profession to act as if each individual has the capacity for scholastic success. That kind of task, that commitment - hope, if you will - is often accompanied by an egalitarian approach to matters of civil polity. You see the same commitment among public health workers, for example, and among journalists and often lawyers.

So, what should we do? How can we keep our young from being brainwashed by liberal faculty?

In fact, this is an invented crisis, not a real one. No student, no parent, no alumnus at Eckerd College or anywhere else has ever complained to me that they were subjected to propaganda or political manipulation by biased professors. Most faculty are too independent, too diverse in their thinking, too focused on their disciplines and their responsibilities as teachers to indulge in tub-thumping in the classroom. They have too much respect (and hope) for their students to do so. Nor would today’s students have the patience for it.

I’m not sure what kind of music Donald R. Eastman the Third was listening to that would even for a moment make him think he was genuinely ’smarter’ than anyone who would read his lies such that, as a teacher, he would have the dream –hope, if you will– that each individual who read his lies has the capacity to be deceived, to supposedly use their ‘free’ will in such a manner as to gain for themselves scholastic success under his tutelage. His ignorance that there is no free will is the source of his blissful egalitarian approach to others. It is anti-Christ through him and he a mere mouthpiece for what he cannot articulate exists.

Thank God in the Name of Jesus Christ I and many others don’t have the free will to be deceived by anti-Christ through any, to include Donald R. Eastman the Third, who in past times has promoted the lie that higher education IS the ’search’ for truth rather the teaching of the truth.

The resistance in North Carolina to studying the Koran, which extends even into the state legislature, fundamentally misunderstands the original purpose of higher education in America.

The great institutions of higher education in early America, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown and many others, were created by Protestant denominations to educate young persons to be able to know the truth; many of them shared the motto, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” The method for pursuing such an education was then, as it is now, the study of what Matthew Arnold called “the best that has been thought and said in the world.” At that time, “the best” was considered to be the study of the canonic texts of the Hebraic and Hellenic worlds.

As the audience for higher education broadened with the industrial revolution in the 19th century, so too did the curriculum, so that universities included preparation for specific professions – ministry, law, medicine, engineering – in addition to the constant core of the academy, the liberal arts.

Higher education in America is now divided into two distinct kinds of places: Those in which the search for truth, for an educated intellect and imagination, is primary; and those in which preparation for a particular career is primary. While there is much that is healthy about this dual-purpose system of higher education, the vast numerical superiority of the second kind of education, amplified as it so often is by the “beer and circus” entertainment apparatus of college football and basketball, threatens to obscure and overwhelm the original purpose of colleges in America. That purpose was not to develop accountants –as important as they are to contemporary business – but to teach values and value-laden thinking to students who would later become, among other things, accountants. That was the kind of education Thomas Jefferson had in mind when he said that democracy depends upon the education of the governed.

The search for truth is by definition characterized by openness to new and often threatening ideas, by admitting all comers to the debate, by respecting the freedom of speech of all contenders, and by making judgments on the basis of evidence. The curriculum for such an enterprise is arduous, and it can provoke fear in those insecure in their own ability to distinguish sense from nonsense in a complex world. An education built on such a curriculum, however, prepares its students not simply for a job but for a lifetime.

The one distinction of a liberal over a conservative, even if both are deceived that men have free will is that a liberal is always and forever ’searching’ for the truth even as the or she mis-quotes God and say that supposedly, whenever you find it, “the truth will set you free.” as supposedly being in solidarity with the fathers who were real Christians and who knew God as Truth and had no need to ’search’ for ‘it’ and God taught Himself through them as Truth. A conservative will at least teach as truth the truth he or she knows as God does it through them.

Donald R. Eastman the Third is a liberal’s liberal, a mouth piece of mouth piece’s of anti-Christ who genuinely seeks to teach lies in the guise of ’searching’ for truth as if that is ‘just what they used to do’ way back when. He has himself lied that ‘the method’ of even ‘searching’ for Truth is NOT to go to God but always elsewhere and see what men have said.

Stay away from the PCUSA and all its affiliates. Eastman, as the whole of the PCUSA are of those of whom God says:

2 Timothy 3:6-9 For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts, always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now in the same manner in which Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, thus these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, found worthless as regards the faith. But they shall not advance farther; for their folly shall be completely manifest to all, as that of those also became.

They are the ignorant who teach what they themselves do not know, hold forth their ignorance as piety and humility and yet are proud to be a supposed filter as priestcraft over all the rest.

1 Timothy 1:5-7 But the end of what is enjoined is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith; which things some having missed, have turned aside to vain discourse, desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what they say or concerning what they so strenuously affirm.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen