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I agree fully with the first part of this article addressing the "anti-intellectual ethos."

In my experience, pastors are worried about kids going off to college and I don't remember anybody promoting bible college, unless it was a small local Oneness Pentecostal college that no one outside of our niche has ever heard of. Questions on doctrine are viewed as doubt and unbelief and then you're asked who you've been talking to. In the 'black' OP churches, you're expected to hack in the pulpit and have a great tag line that you can repeat to your neighbor. 'white' OP churches are similar although the 'hacking' thing seems to be uniquely urban. Reading books and going to seminars are not promoted either. It seems anything/anyone outside of OPs are off-limits because they'll convince you to doubt the "truth."