Lance Wallnau explains what college professors do:
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.
Funny. That stuff isn’t in any of my classes. I guess Wallnau just needs to lie about us molesting brains and worshipping Baal because he thinks it sounds less idiotic than admitting that we, for instance, teach that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old rather than 6,000.
RE: “there are priests of Baal” The writer misspelled her name. Jeanne Bal was a beautiful woman and a terrific actress, but, as far as I know, didn’t have any priests. Today she is best remembered for playing Dr. McCoy’s old flame Nancy Crater, who turned out to be the deadly shape-shifting alien which craves salt, in the Star Trek episode “The Man Trap”.
Interesting *smirk* how he is accusing professors of exactly what priests and religiobots have been doing for millenia.
I guess he doesn’t appreciate being contradicted with actual facts and learning, rather let kids remain indoctrinated with what the naive parents let their kids be filled with from religioes.
*bah*
re @2 correction:
I guess he doesn’t appreciate myths being contradicted with actual facts and
learningteaching, he’d rather let kids remain indoctrinated with what the naive parents let their kids be filled with from religioes.*bah* humbug
*harrumph*
Religioes? Is this a new cereal?
Good Teachers™ don;t just fill kids with beans of facts to be recited on the quizzes. GT’s teach kids how to think, how to ask the Teacher to clarify confusions. Ie They teach kids to keep asking questions and not just accept the first answer they hear; keep asking into the answer. Never stop never surrender. That’s the real meaning of “open mind”, keep asking for more information, verifications that the answers continue to make sense. Keep asking, never stop, always ask. ????
Sounds like professional jealousy.
“I wanted those virgin minds! They are MINE!”
“Religioes? Is this a new cereal?”
Off-brand Cheerios, except before you buy them you have to swear they’re the best cereal in the world and you’ll never eat anything else
I don’t know his background, but I’d be boggled if it included college, because if he did go, he has to know that professors teach whatever specifics are involved in their field. Of course, that wouldn’t stop a Christian from lying.
Maybe it’s post-lunch fatigue, but I had real trouble parsing the quote.
Caine @ 8
It’s always possible he went to one of the more ‘let us shelter little Tommy and Suzie from The World’ religious colleges where, at best, anything that sniffs of controversy is presented as if it is state secrets lest it outage parents and cause money to dry up. That lets one pretend that the naughty non-Christian schools* totally indoctrinate students as much as they do.
* Including the sorts that aren’t really Christian because they allow things like dancing.
Why does he think that prayer would ever get into the educational narrative, outside perhaps of a theology course? Does he want to see the same system of education that the USSR developed, where everything had to be explained in the context of Marxist dialectic and no student could graduate without an intensive grilling designed to confirm that they were a good Communist?
I cannot express how disgusting I find it that those people equate an education with child rape.
Fucking disgusting bastards.
@slithey tove
Damn, I wanted to ask how often Wallnau thought about molesting virgin children.
Like all authoritarians, Wallnau wants to implant his dogma (heh) firmly in young minds, so that they follow the program like good little drones: oppress women, vote Republican, and embrace the status quo. Teaching people to think, to question everything, sooner or later disrupts those control structures. Having never questioned his own dogma, college kids “losing their faith” looks like Satanic voodoo witchcraft. “Those evil college professors must have implanted their own mind control over mine!”, he says in this weird scenario of mine. “I’ll just have to really brainwash the next batch.”
While fully supporting Giliell’s point in #11, and while adding that I ***in no way*** support the idea that either rape or molestation is in any way “less bad” or “more bad” depending on whether or not the victim is a virgin…
…I think it shows an ***extreme*** detachment from reality if this Wallnau person actually believes that college students’ imaginations have likely never included sex.
Really, Wallnau? Really? Precisely how much ignorance do you want us to assume is in your possession?
Baal’s pretty rad though.
Becca Stareyes @ 9:
Bingo! I went and looked:
Ah, academics, proudly corrupting the minds of our youth since 399BC.
Siobhan,
Baal, Moloch, Yahweh, Dagon and so forth were the gods of particular peoples back in the day.
But Yahweh won out, because he was really strict with his followers. Rad did not cut it.
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“Thou shalt have no other gods before me”
(I’m always amused when monotheists try to rationalise that particular Commandment)
I guess we’ll all have to report to Trump university for reeducation now.
So kids go to college and find out that there is a much bigger world than their rural hometown, and meet lots of people with different ideas than their parents had, and come home with a broader perspective on the world.
Then someone wants to blame this on the professors?
Once again, maladjusted agency detection and intellectual laziness rules the day.
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!
He’s less clear about whether he attended or finished regular college – his bio says he “attended a college in Lancaster County , PA. ” He apparently went at some point to Valley Forge military academy which has junior college components. But it’s not in Lancaster.
If you are asked to take on these extra duties please make sure that you get a pay raise commensurate with the extra work. The devil does not work for nothing.
I think worship of Baal the storm god is limited to professors studying meterology.
Also, the fool does not understand that for prayer to work, they have to be accompanied with human sacrifice. The Caananites were apparently big on sacrificing children. So the stuff about “intellectual pedophiles” may be about fear of professors ruining the taste of the souls of the future sacrifices.
I’d love to have a job description like that.
No, not really. But it’s nice to make fun of.