The real issue at Baylor is whether the price of academic respectability is the surrender of Christian identity. Is it true that “smart people outgrow God,” as secular critics insist? Or can Baylor provide an alternative, namely, a university that, in Dreher’s words, “can speak to the broader culture from an intellectually sound but morally distinct vantage point”?
This strikes me today as a crucial issue for North American culture as we find it in our current day and age. If the "smart people outgrow God" forces win this battle and others like it then North America culture loses.
It definitely contrasts Japanese culture, where Christianity has very little influence and the Christian world view can be incomprehensible to the average person. The cultural basics that North American culture takes for granted, the underlying Christian ethics that the culture grew up on are still there.
In Japan that Christian basis does not exist, so explaining concepts such as good and evil becomes very difficult. It cause the newly landed missionary in Japan to completely rethink how to go about doing missions. It causes frustration at how little progress seems to be made. Japan needs to be redeemed. It is crying out to be redeemed. A lot of work needs to be done however at the very basis of its culture.
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