Professors Hold 'Unfavorable' View of Evangelicals


	Professors Hold 'Unfavorable' View of Evangelicals

jatfla

5-8-2007 12:30 PM

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jatfla says:

Well, no kidding. The last paragraph is what we've seen in "real life".

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By Nathan Burchfiel</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200705/CUL20070508b.html"><B> (CNSNews.com)</B>  - A majority of American university faculty members view evangelical Christians unfavorably and would like to see the influence of "Christian fundamentalists" on American politics lessened, according to a study released Monday by the Institute for Jewish and Community Research </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200705/CUL20070508b.html">The survey, which polled more than 1,200 university faculty members, found that 53 percent of them have "cool" or "unfavorable" feelings toward evangelicals, a group that may account for one-third of the American population.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200705/CUL20070508b.html">"It's unlikely that faculty would give students poor grades because of their religious beliefs, but that's the least of it," Tobin said. "It is likely to play out in subtle ways in treating students as intellectually strong or not intellectually strong, encouraging them to participate or not encouraging them to participate."</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7DD4B96C-10DC-4252-80FD-30735D6202B1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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