Young believers and the forces of secularism

May 10, 2016 by

Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet:

A new study points to anti-Christian prejudice in English schools.

“I am torn between two different ways: everyone’s saying he’s [God’s] not real, everyone saying I’m wasting my time and I should be an atheist like them.”  (Toni, an 11-year-old English schoolgirl)

In a column in the New York Times a few days ago self-styled progressive Nicholas Kristoff called for a more representative presence of conservatives and Christians in academic positions. This was prompted by the experience of a black sociologist, George Yancey, an Evangelical:

“Outside of academia I faced more problems as a black,” he told me. “But inside academia I face more problems as a Christian, and it is not even close.”

Yancey conducted a survey in which up to 30 percent of academics said that they would be less likely to support a job seeker if they knew that the person was a Republican. And if they knew he was an Evangelical his case would be even more hopeless: 59 percent of anthropologists and 53 percent of English professors would be less likely to hire him or her.

This, obviously, will have its effect on college students, despite the US being more religious than practically any other developed country.

Than Britain, for example.

A young Christian in the UK does not have to wait until university to find the dice loaded against their faith and values. A new study of secondary school students from various Christian denominations in England indicates that if a young believer practises their faith they may face prejudice from classmates and teachers alike.

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