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(Permalink) Posted: May 30 2010,16:47   

In a reply to Hunter's UD whinefest, paulbaird responds:
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  But there are myriad barriers that ensure skeptics are filtered out at every stage. Everything from passing grades and letters of recommendation to tenure and funding are strongly contingent on conformity. Dissenters are blacklisted so they never have a chance to raise objections.


But you work at a University where, according to Wikipedia

 
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   As a final guarantee of strict adherence to its theological and cultural worldview, the University requires every faculty member, when first hired and again upon application for tenure, to submit their understanding of and complete agreement with each item of the doctrinal and teaching statements to the Talbot School of Theology for evaluation.


Is that incorrect ? If it is correct then what’s the difference between that University’s enforcement of compliance and the alleged enforcement of compliance elsewhere ?

Touche.  I wonder how far an atheist, materialist, Darwimp would make it at Biola, Liberty, LeaderU, etc?  Think they'd make tenure?

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