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That's funny. Last I recall, it was God who said in his word, thousands of years before the alleged "enlightenment,"

"Come, let us reason together..."

I guess Gore couldn't step up.

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Hey, Dun:

If you think that Divinity schools and seminaries are "bastions of Republican power," you don't have the slightest hint of an idea of what you are talking about!!!

Those schools are full of things and ideas that are anathema to most Republicans:

advocacy of moral relativism, lack of respect for authority, coddling of Marxist idealogy and its proponents, de-valuation of traditional family structure, acceptance of deviant sexual behavior, and support for more governmental interference into daily life, just to name a few!

Divinity schools and seminaries largely are, in reality, bastions of leftist thinking and left-leaning activism!!!!!

NROTFL!!!

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" ROFLMAO, unless of course you question whats being presented. Sure fire way to get booted from divinity school. thinking and logic have no place there, hence they tend to be bastions of Republican power."

Well. Any good divinity school allows questions, thinking, logic and requires an excellent foundation in philosophy and logic.

"There's no reasoning allowed in religious schools today."

It depends on the school. Harvard Divinity, SFTS / Berkeley cluster encourage, if not require, questioning, logic, philosophy and thinking.

Perhaps you two are generalizing about divinity schools while referencing evangelical-run schools that are more about indoctrination and follow-the-leader.

The majority of divinity schools that fall outside that narrow definition tend to be bastions of liberal orthodoxy. Christians follow Christ's example and speak strongly about justice, peace and Christ's example as paramount. Buddhists tend to be from the more liberal end of the spectrum. You don't find many orthodox Jews. Nor many fundamentalist Muslims.

Vettenut has it right when s/he says seminaries (especially Catholic) and divinity schools tend (with the exeception of those nasty evangelical schools) towards the liberal (socially) end of the spectrum.

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