Comment on Elder Graham: “Why I Support La Sierra University” by Sean Pitman.
Perhaps I am not aware how slowly committees are supposed to work, but it seems to me like this issue does not need decades to resolve. That’s right – decades. Many of the science professors at LSU have long been promoting the idea that life has existed and evolved on this planet for hundreds of millions of years – since the inception of LSU. This problem has only become worse and the evolutionist professors more and more bold in their open defiance of the Church’s stand on this issue over the years.
I myself have been trying to get this particular problem substantively addressed at LSU for over 6 years. Then when David Asscherick’s letter made this issue generally known over a year ago, LSU continued to drag its feet and hope, as usual, that everything would just “blow over.” Well, it hasn’t blown over this time and over a year has gone by with no substantive action by LSU’s boards and committees to address this problem – despite repeated assurances of action.
The new freshman class added last year to introduce students to the interplay of science and religion was supervised and taught by the very teachers who openly admit to believing in and actively promoting the evolutionary story of origins while considering the 6-day creation week an outdated notion believed in by only the ignorant “lunatic fringe” within the SDA Church. The guest lecturers weren’t much better. Even those from the religion department at LSU cast doubt upon the validity of a literal reading of the Genesis account of creation in this new freshman class – a class originally touted as a solution to this whole debate.
Now, whole conference are starting to question the resolve of LSU to really do anything substantive to solve this active undermining of the Pillars of the Seventh-day Adventist Faith at LSU – the literal six-day creation week in particular. The Michigan Conference no longer recognizes LSU as a truly Adventist University and will no longer subsidize conference workers who send their children to LSU. The Central California Conference (CCC) has also recently warned LSU that it has had plenty of time to do something about this problem and that if it continues to drag its feet the CCC may have to take additional actions to encourage LSU to act in support of the Fundamentals of the SDA Church. I hear that the Texas Conference is thinking of doing the same thing as is the Gulf States Conference.
I’m sorry Elder Graham, but the time for the dragging of LSU’s feet on this issue is over. Now is the time to stand up for what is right by the SDA Church as a body and act decisively on an issue that is and has dramatically affected the lives of thousands of our young people – many of whom no longer believe many of the Pillars of the SDA Faith because of the doubts that were taught to them by their loved and respected LSU professors.
Sean Pitman
www.DetectingDesign.com
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Thank you Colin. Just trying to save lives any way I can. Not everything that the government does or leaders do is “evil” BTW…
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I fail to see where you have convincingly supported your claim that the GC leadership contributed to the harm of anyone’s personal religious liberties? – given that the GC leadership does not and could not override personal religious liberties in this country, nor substantively change the outcome of those who lost their jobs over various vaccine mandates. That’s just not how it works here in this country. Religious liberties are personally derived. Again, they simply are not based on a corporate or church position, but rely solely upon individual convictions – regardless of what the church may or may not say or do.
Yet, you say, “Who cares if it is written into law”? You should care. Everyone should care. It’s a very important law in this country. The idea that the organized church could have changed vaccine mandates simply isn’t true – particularly given the nature of certain types of jobs dealing with the most vulnerable in society (such as health care workers for example).
Beyond this, the GC Leadership did, in fact, write in support of personal religious convictions on this topic – and there are GC lawyers who have and continue to write personal letters in support of personal religious convictions (even if these personal convictions are at odds with the position of the church on a given topic). Just because the GC leadership also supports the advances of modern medicine doesn’t mean that the GC leadership cannot support individual convictions at the same time. Both are possible. This is not an inconsistency.
