Lance Wallnau.
Lance Wallnau is on another tear, this time, about college, specifically, college professors. He indulges in some terrible purple prose in his attempt to get across just how really, truly, oh for realz, evil they are. Really.
Wallnau, an early and vocal supporter of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, is a leading advocate of Seven Mountains dominionism, the idea that Christians are to “do whatever is necessary” to take control of all aspects of the culture in order to implement the will of God throughout the world. One of the “mountains” that Christians needs to gain control of is “the university mountain,” Wallnau said, “because the professors are the factory foremen that are shaping the mind of the next generation.”
Wallnau lamented that radicals from the 1960s went into academia and have spent decades warping the minds of students, which is why conservative Christians continue to lose battles in the culture war.
Sigh. The ever present culture war. No, this is about Christians constantly attempting to retard any and all social progress, and to stomp on the idea of social justice. This is about wanting those mythical 1950s back, where you pretend everything was just great. There’s always noise being made about all the awful secularists, and the awful atheists, and the awful nones, and so forth, but very little about all those other Christians. People like to say that getting atheists to agree on something is like herding cats (which isn’t difficult at all), but the same applies to Christians. The various denominations of Christianity go on and on and on and on. They don’t agree with one another. Within that incomplete list, there are a fair number of Christians who would, and will be ardently opposed to your stance, Lance. Those would be Christians who think social progress and inclusivity is a good thing. You don’t want to win a culture war, you want to crush all dissent, and crown yourself the Jesus King.
“Anything we do regarding abortion, prayer, marriage,” he said, “anything we do that doesn’t get into the educational narrative that is affecting the minds of students will be lost within eight to 10 years because you’ve got gatekeeper priests, there are priests of Baal at the top of the university mountain, poisoning the minds [of young people.] They’re like intellectual pedophiles molesting the virgin territory of your children’s imaginations.”
Last time I looked, most people in college are legal adults. I have to wonder if you went to college, Lance, because professors don’t get to treat class time as “hey, free time, I can pontificate about whatever I want!” They have to teach a class, and their personal views aren’t a part of that. As for poisoning the minds of actual children, I don’t think we need to look much further than religion, do we?
Via Right Wing Watch.
Wow. Religious fanaticism, underneath all the pomp and fancy dress, really is just the same everywhere.
Yes, it is, which makes the hypocrisy over the cries about evil Islam really stand out. It’s the same damn religion, with the same damn fanatics.
So the good “doctor” has degrees: “Doctorate in Ministry with a specialization in Marketplace from Phoenix University of Theology, and M.A. from South Western Theological Seminary where he also taught an as an adjunct professor.
WHoowhoo -- a doctorate from Phoenix university requires $600 and a stamp!
What always annoys me about these guys is the psychological projection. He’s accusing non-fundamentalist universities and professors of ‘brainwashing’ students while openly waging an (ineffectual) war to transform universities into fundamentalist indoctrination centers.
There’s no way that these lackwits will ever gain control of universities legitimately. The vast majority of these theocratic types don’t give two shits about actual scholarship. They don’t want to be scientists or mathematicians or historians for the sake of knowledge. They only care about academia to the point that it can be used to prop up their theology. That translates to them being awful at their jobs, producing sub-par research and neglecting their duties to preach bullshit.
Wallnau, chriiiist. Dude. Christians who are like yourself are losing the ‘culture war’ because you view treating other people equitably (alt: just leaving them the fuck alone) as a war to be fought and then you behave accordingly. It’s because you’re assholes, okay?
OMG, his Charisma news bio describes him as “a catalytic thought leader.” Do you think he wrote that himself? It sounds like he wrote that himself.
I can’t say I am happy that Dominionism has become so well entrenched in US culture that it’s been getting press and making people nervous. On the one hand I don’t feel so paranoid any more since it turns out that part of my childhood wasn’t a fever dream and they really are out to get us, on the other, goddamn Dominionism. “Let’s take all the worst parts of our religion and force a whole country to adhere to it so we can bring back Jesus!” Trying to explain this to people until a few years ago, I sounded in a more conspiracist state of mind than Mr. Christian Supremacist up there.
Onamission5:
Oh, I saw that, and about fell over laughing! Of course he wrote it himself. I wonder how long he spent buried in a thesaurus to come up with that one. When I first saw it, first thought was “catalytic converter”, from way back when in SoCal, when cars had to be fitted with one to combat pollution; second thought was “cataleptic thought leader” would be more accurate.
Catastrophic thought leader also works. Or caterwauling. ;P
So, that means he thinks of himself as a catalytic converter?
I’ll get my coat….