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“your God don’t have to go home, but He can’t come here”
I was an evangelical Christian when I went off to college. I joined a nondenominational campus Christian group as a freshman, went to some Bible studies, and attended church most every Sunday morning along with sometimes participating in a weekly Wednesday night worship service.
And already you’re judging me.
It has long been asserted among evangelical Christian circles that Christian viewpoints are often disdained and/or ridiculed in most college classrooms by professors. I remember when I was as a sophomore in my Exploring Religions class, hearing the professor opine about how the Hebrew word for God in the first few chapters of Genesis is grammatically plural in some instances, so he questioned how Christians could possibly believe in only one God (nevermind respecting the grammatical subtleties of a dead language from another culture, or even the author’s possible intentions). In other words: anyone that still held onto the idea of the existence of only one God after learning this was perhaps an idiot. This was his dismissive attitude all semester exclusively toward Christianity. And so it goes for Christian beliefs on a fair number of campuses: evangelical Christians often perceive belittlement regarding what they believe is the truth from their respective campus community.
But it’s not just me saying this.
