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FirmhandKY -> RE: Christian Fundamentalists Believe Oil Spill Heralds The Apocalypse « Alan Colmes Liberaland (6/7/2010 6:14:29 AM)
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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda
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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen
Speechless at the arrogance and ignorance of the bloggers - they truly believe that the apocalypse should come to pass in the US when there's a whole world available for it to occur? OK the US is large, but on a global scale not so much and the Gulf Of Mexico is a duckpond compared to the ocean area of the planet.
But in order to understand that, they'd need to have at least a 4th-grade level grasp of both science and geography. And since neither subject is addressed in the bible, it's unlikely they would have any real familiarity with either subject.
Harvard:
The charter creating the corporation of Harvard College came in 1650. In the early years, the College trained many Puritan ministers.[11] The college offered a classic academic course based on the English university model --many leaders in the colony had attended Cambridge University--but one consistent with the prevailing Puritan philosophy.
Princeton:
New Light Presbyterians founded the College of New Jersey, later Princeton University, in 1746 in order to train ministers dedicated to their views. The college was the educational and religious capital of Scotch-Irish America. In 1756, the college moved to Princeton, New Jersey.
Dartmouth:
Established in 1769 by Congregational minister Eleazar Wheelock with funds largely raised by the efforts of Native American preacher Samson Occom, the College's initial mission was to acculturate and Christianize the Native Americans.
Brown:
The charter required that the makeup of the board of thirty-six trustees include twenty-two Baptists, five Friends, four Congregationalists, and five Church of England members, and by twelve Fellows, of whom eight, including the President, should be Baptists "and the rest indifferently of any or all denominations."
Yale:
Yale traces its beginnings to "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School," passed by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut on October 9, 1701 in an effort to create an institution to train ministers and lay leadership for Connecticut. Soon thereafter, a group of ten Congregationalist ministers: Samuel Andrew, Thomas Buckingham, Israel Chauncy, Samuel Mather, James Noyes, James Pierpont, Abraham Pierson, Noadiah Russel, Joseph Webb and Timothy Woodbridge, all of whom were alumni of Harvard, met in the study of Reverend Samuel Russell in Branford, Connecticut, to pool their books to form the school's first library.[12] The group, led by James Pierpont, is now known as "The Founders.
Yeah, those damn dumb Christians. Education, science, and actually learning about the world has never been of much importance ...
Firm
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