{"id":9426,"date":"2018-12-18T13:57:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9426"},"modified":"2018-12-18T13:57:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:57:39","slug":"baptist-professor-too-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9426","title":{"rendered":"Baptist professor too conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is fun: It seems that someplace called Southwest Baptist University has fired a faculty member for being too conservative and doing as the Patterson\/Pressler group did during the so-called Consrvative Resurgence — surveilling colleagues’<\/a> doctrinal purity.<\/p>\n

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Clint Bass served as a professor of church history in the Redford College of Theology and Ministry at Southwest Baptist University from 2009 – 2018. Prior to November 28, 2018, he never had a negative review nor had disciplinary action ever been taken against him.<\/p>\n

Early on in his teaching career at SBU, Bass observed certain signs<\/span> suggesting that the Redford College in which he taught was not well aligned<\/span> with the supporting churches of the Missouri Baptist Convention. Every now and then he logged examples to substantiate this view<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well … ho-hum. Since evangelicals are too intellectually corrupt to bother with establishing their premises — Our Invisible Friend is real, and the production of the Inerrant Bible was somehow superintended by Our Invisible Friend — theological disputes are innately doomed to go unresolved because they cannot be appealed to undisputed facts. This is, incidentally, the same reason that Donald Trump’s fact-free governance is so dangerous, and probably the reason that evangelicals adore him.<\/p>\n

Strikingly, a lot of students and their families seem to be backing<\/a> the purist professor — which means there is another generation of idiots out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is fun: It seems that someplace called Southwest Baptist University has fired a faculty member for being too conservative and doing as the Patterson\/Pressler group did during the so-called Consrvative Resurgence — surveilling colleagues’ doctrinal purity. Clint Bass served … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9429,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions\/9429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}