Comment on Supreme Court Decision on Church Employment Case by Holly Pham.
Ken: Re Sean’s QuoteHi SeanI think you are right on with this point. The question is whether advenitst biology professors should be teaching faith based biology at an Adventist institution. That is a complex question as it deals with issues of autonomy of an academic institution from its supporting church as well as the autonomy of science professors to teach science independent of their theological convictions. I don’t know the answer to that.Your agnostic friendKen
Regarding the “autonomy” of college departments, would a music teacher (I believe we had one here but I forgot his name) be allowed to teach “hip-hop” “heavy metal” “rap” and other forms of music our SDA Church generally disaproves of in one of our SDA colleges?
Would a physician at LLU medical center be allowed to use “medical marijuana” as part of his treatment for whatever his patient complained of?
Our these types of things happening in our SDA institutions?
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Lydian: I mentioned my concern on this practice in another column some time ago but apparently very few, if anybody, saw things the same way so I’m mentioning it again here because I feel it is very important.I simply cannot understand how anyone who truly respects the Bible as God’s Word to us can write it’s name over and over again and never capitalize the B…
I agree with you, and I actually made that same error a few months ago. I believe I have corrected it since then.
Supreme Court Decision on Church Employment Case
Ervin Taylor: Every few months, some of us have to drop by the EducateTruth (sic) web site to check on what new conspiracy theories are circulating on the HRWAN, the Hyper-Right Wing Adventist Network. The only exception to that generalization are the comments of Wes and Ken who we can note are still trying to bring some light to the otherwise dark side of Adventism.Wes continues to contribute his unique perspectives. May I cite as evidence: “Heroic hermeneutics came upon us along with apoacademic eonic evolution. Recent radioactive decay data suggest that hermeneutics crawled out of the swamp along with other fishy karyopoetics when LSC (which I attended) became LSU (of which I’m considered an alumnus, qualifying me for the full dose of promotional newsletters, featuring gecko-fondling biologists)”Where else could one encounter such rhetorical creativity and winsomeness? Wes must be inspired. I realize that he would never post on the Adventist Today or Spectrum web sites, so one has to come here to read him.
Dr. Taylor, Why don’t you get Dr. Kime on the AT bloggers list so he could have his own column.
Supreme Court Decision on Church Employment Case
Ron: Perhaps the institution is not autonomous, but the thoughts of the the people within the institution should always be, with the possible exception of hate speech.
I don’t see the SDA Church punishing anyone for their “thoughts.” Is it anywhere?
What people, especially SDA Church and institutional employees say and teach is certainly worth evaluating and might deserve being punished.
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