OXYMORON. Great word, John.
A true story.
Several moons ago I took one of our daughters to a Christian College. It was several hundred miles away. She was very excited about it. She had spent her first two years at a (then called) Junior College to save a few shekels. BUT she looked forward to the day she could shed herself of the kind of teaching she was receiving---such as evolution. When we arrived at this school, they had a student meets teacher reception for which I stayed. In meeting some of the Prof's, one she met was a science teacher. Her eyes lit up and she said---"Oh that is great, I want to take a creation class here." The teacher replied: "Oh, we don't believe in that here, we teach Theistic evolution." My daughter's eyes welled up in tears. She turned to me and said: "Dad, let's go." We went outside and sat on a bench and she began to weep. She said: "Dad, I've been getting all that bunk for years, I was so looking forward to a Christian setting and getting teaching that lined up with the Bible."
What could I say. I was ashamed and embarassed for Christianity. Another school going the way of the Harvard's and Yale's.
I told her to sleep on it and pray about it and if she felt the same way about it in the morning, I'd take her back home and we'd search out another school.
She ended up staying and graduating there, but she won't send her kids there and she doesn't believe in theistic evolution either.
OXYMORON 'tis right on. |
