Christian vs secular campus life

rufio055
Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:57:57 +0000

Intellectual Christians tend to be more postmodern and are not the stereotypical “born-again” Christian that the original poster fears. That is what I would assume prevails as the Christian influence on campus. And postmodern Christianity is so much different than Baylor-type or the guy from the movie “The Apostle” or even Billy or Franklin Graham that you, as an atheist or an agnostic person, however smallminded in your desires to stay away from the other kind of Christianity, will not feel threatened by the postmodern Christian influence on Rice’s campus.

Read A New Kind of Christian, by Brian McLaren if you are interested in the difference between modernist and postmodernist Christianity that America is slowly experiencing at a glacial pace down from the north. Even if you are not a Christian, it is a great book to give you an insight to see what the next 50 years of Christianity may look like, and how that may not be as threatening to you atheists, and perhaps more appealing…