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DBoon

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6. Evangelicals do not value disciplined intellectual inquiry

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 03:00 PM

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Critical thinking is considered an offense against god.

Where are the top-ranked evangelical universities and law schools?

Other religious traditions in the USA *do* value intellectual inquiry - Secularism, mainstream Protestantism, Judaism and Catholicism. What do evangelicals have? Bob Jones University?

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