Pentecostals and Anti-Intellectualism

[originalsecretplace]

My pastor had remarked one day that "so and so" had come to our district and preached and had mentioned to the young people they should get a good education. He said that remark had ruined the district.

Let me just say that the only job his children will probably be able to get out side the ministry is one that inlcudes the phrase "Do you want fries with that?"

[nathan_slatter]

I've just started my college career. But I was "lost" long before that -- it came from reading the "wrong" books and actually thinking about it.

[Rhoni]

Originally Posted by originalsecretplace

My pastor had remarked one day that "so and so" had come to our district and preached and had mentioned to the young people they should get a good education. He said that remark had ruined the district.

Let me just say that the only job his children will probably be able to get out side the ministry is one that inlcudes the phrase "Do you want fries with that?"

That is why SOME preachers are still preaching...they could only be qualified to flip the burgers otherwise!

[Steve Epley]

Originally Posted by originalsecretplace

My pastor had remarked one day that "so and so" had come to our district and preached and had mentioned to the young people they should get a good education. He said that remark had ruined the district.

Let me just say that the only job his children will probably be able to get out side the ministry is one that inlcudes the phrase "Do you want fries with that?"

This is really hard to imagine. I come from Kentucky where education was indeed lacking and yes folks said negative things about it because of their own lacking or fear. But that was a very small minority.

[Rhoni]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

This is really hard to imagine. I come from Kentucky where education was indeed lacking and yes folks said negative things about it because of their own lacking or fear. But that was a very small minority.

Bro. Epley,

Your post is right on target but the only thing I would like to add is that it is more prevalent than you think. If I heard it once I heard it at least a hundred times during the course of my going to college [1992-1996] across the pulpits where I was going to church or visiting...You don't have to have a degree to...and it is difficult for the educated to get to heaven because they can't understand the simplicity of the message...All these scriptures taken out of context and misapplied.

I totally agree with your honest observation that those who croak the loudest about higher education are those lacking in it and also fear it.

Blessings, Rhoni

[freeatlast]

Originally Posted by Rhoni

Bro. Epley,

Your post is right on target but the only thing I would like to add is that it is more prevalent than you think. If I heard it once I heard it at least a hundred times during the course of my going to college [1992-1996] across the pulpits where I was going to church or visiting...You don't have to have a degree to...and it is difficult for the educated to get to heaven because they can't understand the simplicity of the message...All these scriptures taken out of context and misapplied.

I totally agree with your honest observation that those who croak the loudest about higher education are those lacking in it and also fear it.

Blessings, Rhoni

Same here Rhoni: Heard it that you just couldn't make it as a Christian and go to college.

I dropped out of college because of that mentality.

This thinking annd preaching came from weak minded men. Paranoid men.

Men who never really grasped who God is.

Ignorant men who propagate the continuance of ignorance in our ranks.

Thank God there is less of this mentality today, but we will suffer it's affects for years to come.