Is OPism anti-intellectual?

[RandyWayne]

There are many exceptions to the rule but overall I believe OP's are anti-intellectual and many do fall away whilst attending institutes of higher learning. I believe over riding reason is the ultra-shielding from society that many endured growing up as well as find that things may just be the way that pastor said they were. Imagine the shock of a older teen attending his first science class and learning that perhaps Ken Ham ISN'T the be-all and end-all of science and physics. Then their thinking goes "If my pastor and Ken Ham were wrong about the way chemistry and radiation work then what ELSE did pastor lie about?"

[Michael The Disciple]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

There are many exceptions to the rule but overall I believe OP's are anti-intellectual and many do fall away whilst attending institutes of higher learning. I believe over riding reason is the ultra-shielding from society that many endured growing up as well as find that things may just be the way that pastor said they were. Imagine the shock of a older teen attending his first science class and learning that perhaps Ken Ham ISN'T the be-all and end-all of science and physics. Then their thinking goes "If my pastor and Ken Ham were wrong about the way chemistry and radiation work then what ELSE did pastor lie about?"

And yet all the believers I know that attended College have fallen away from Christ. Most of them were not Oneness Pentecostal.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

And yet all the believers I know that attended College have fallen away from Christ. Most of them were not Oneness Pentecostal.

That is funny because I know many Christians who obtained advanced degrees. Even my former pastor before moving to Arizona got his Masters in Counseling and education and now teaches (when he's not pastoring). Just like my last post though I can imagine a church where the young people are so sheltered and their only experience with science is what they hear on Christian radio on Sat morning that they are completely unprepared for the real world. I CAN imagine 'everyone' from a such a church falling away when they hit college.