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2/11/2003 01:47:00 AM | Karsten Barde Not So Benign After All Tim wrote: "Now, there has never been any hint the Campus Crusade for Christ supported violence and the like... Here it is a cool name with nice alliteration. It is a nice Jacko parody, but beyond that..." After having received a fair amount of heat on this blog for being "too sensitive", it might sound strange for me to take this position, but I think Tim (a fellow softie) is being overly sympathetic to the Campus Crusade for Christ. In my opinion, it's fair to be critical of a group that (at the very least) has no sense of irony about the use of that moniker. Is Tim trying to equivocate on the topic of religious evangelism so as to avoid stepping on the toes of politically liberal religious types? If so, I wish he would reconsider: we deserve to hear his true thoughts about the matter. To defend Campus Crusade for Christ on the basis that it has "never...supported violence and the like" is a pretty meaningless defense, in any case. I would hope there are more consequential reasons Tim or fellow bloggers might condone a religious organization's activities on campus. To provide perspective... this nation suffers in the hands of those conservative Protestants who dominate in Congress, and we owe it to ourselves to fight the spread of religious intolerance tooth and nail. While CCC may be a sufficiently circumspect and politically cautious organization on the Dartmouth campus, religious pluralism is under direct threat from CCC and other fundamentalist "student evangelists" (read well-funded apparatchiks) on campuses around the country. Religious pluralism is pretty securely established in liberal Hanover, but venture out into other parts of NH and VT and you'll find out what the climate is like for non-Christians. Perhaps this makes clear something I firmly believe: our job as campus progressives is not so much to effect change at Dartmouth, but to prepare ourselves for the world beyond. We cannot afford to let struggles against reactionary conservatism on campus frustrate us and drain our energies when the real world is full of so many more important challenges. perma link |
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