Consider if you will that Harvard was once a bastion for cultivating biblically-minded individuals. Burning with a passion to instill doctrinally-sound principles and practices, the first colleges of America made no qualms about their purpose.
Where are Harvard and the whole of the higher education system now? Fueled by billions of secular humanist dollars, higher education has degenerated to become an incubator for students who want to throw off the “chains” of parental and biblical authority.
How Colleges Undermine the Faith
Wielding their immense power over young people in the classroom, college professors seek to subjugate students’ opposing worldviews to their own. One university faculty member recently articulated this agenda with great candor when he said, “We need to encourage everyone to be in college for as many years as they possibly can, in the hope that somewhere along the line they might get some exposure to the world outside their town, and to moral ideas not exclusively derived from their parents’ religion. If they don’t get this in college, they’re not going to get it anywhere else.”
Regrettably, many Christian higher education institutions have also been infiltrated. My good friend Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis has warned that a growing number of faculty from conservative evangelical campuses are espousing evolution as God’s means of creation. Having surrendered their commitment to biblical authority, these faculty find themselves with no basis for discernment on essential doctrines of the faith. Truth itself is a casualty in the hands of these professors who embrace postmodern moral relativism.
Far more young people than we realize have experienced the undermining of their faith by the Christian college experience. In his book, Already Gone, Ken shares the staggering statistic that two-thirds of the young people regularly attending church today will have left the church after graduating from college. This is an epidemic. In fact, research shows that regardless of the Christian student’s public, Christian, or homeschool education, there’s no difference in the outcome.
The Debt Toll
Not only is higher education plunging generations of young adults into a quagmire of atheistic, evolutionary, and morally reprehensible philosophies, higher education is also enslaving them to a crushing burden of debt. Consider these staggering statistics:
- According to Finaid.org, 65.6% of students graduate with at least $23,186 in student loan debt.
- US college students owe $830 billion on government and private student loans, which is $3 billion more than the total balance Americans owe on credit cards, according to the Federal Reserve.
As grim as the higher education outlook is for young adults, the demand for college-educated people has never been higher. This is where conflict spurs a movement to disrupt higher education and reinvent college.
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