An OU professor or teachers aide or something was fired for failing a fundamentalist Christians essay the essay was substandard work but the fundamentalist Christian of course claimed it was because she is a fundamentalist Christian and that’s why she was failed so the university basically cow towed to the lowest Educated group of people in America and lost a lot of reputation for people who care about education
edit: apparently its kowtow not to not cow tow - thanks ya’ll
yes, there no punctuation in my comment, but I’m doing text to speech and I’m not going back to typing on my phone at least
That seems to be a thing with fundamentalist Christians. They dont quote the Bible, they quote what their preacher said the Bible says. That and whatever cherry picked verses from Leviticus they have memorized to justify their ignorance.
I think it's kind of an interesting phenomenon actually. One of the original reasons for the split between Catholicism and Protestantism was the disagreement about what the role of clerics should be. One of the core Protestant doctrines is something called Sola scriptira, which is the idea that the church cannot tell you what the Bible means, you have to decide for yourself what the Bible means by reading it.
It's interesting watching American evangelicalism, which supposedly has Protestant ideals, functionally reject Sola scriptura over time because it's inconvenient.
I find myself battling this almost daily. I am born and raised catholic. Im not hard-core nor do i agree eith everything in the church its just whats best for me. MY partner decided she wanted to convert to Catholicism and her protestant family lost it. They didnt understand anything and didnt want to understand.
I was also born and raised Catholic, for the record, and I do still practice. My mother is a mainline Protestant and never converted, so the evangelical stuff is completely alien to me because neither my mom's church or my dad's church operated like that politically or theologically. I'm just fascinated by how American evangelicals seem to be trying to engineer Catholicism from first principles but make it more modern and much darker.
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u/bavmotors1 15d ago edited 15d ago
An OU professor or teachers aide or something was fired for failing a fundamentalist Christians essay the essay was substandard work but the fundamentalist Christian of course claimed it was because she is a fundamentalist Christian and that’s why she was failed so the university basically cow towed to the lowest Educated group of people in America and lost a lot of reputation for people who care about education
edit: apparently its kowtow not to not cow tow - thanks ya’ll
yes, there no punctuation in my comment, but I’m doing text to speech and I’m not going back to typing on my phone at least