If kennahijja denied that she was an atheist and a Marxist then that probably indicates that she isn't, since I have no reason to doubt her honesty. It's telling that the Lutheran professor only refers to Mr. Vanderhooft as a "functional atheist," which sounds more like a term of abuse than anything else.
Regardless of whether university spokespeople are more honest than Cretans or less so, there's obviously a disagreement on some factual issues here, and I'm not going to swallow whole the words of an self-professedly biased university professor quoted in a badly written article that shares the same point point of view. (There's nothing wrong with the fact that they're biased, as long as we can check their accounts against other sources.) I don't think this is unreasonable.
Incidentally, the actual chair of the Theology department is Kenneth Himes, a Franciscan, for what that's worth.
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Date: 2006-05-10 06:23 am (UTC)Vanderhooft as a "functional atheist," which sounds more like a term of abuse than anything else.
Regardless of whether university spokespeople are more honest than Cretans or less so, there's obviously a disagreement on some factual issues here, and I'm not going to swallow whole the words of an self-professedly biased university professor quoted in a badly written article that shares the same point point of view. (There's nothing wrong with the fact that they're biased, as long as we can check their accounts against other sources.) I don't think this is unreasonable.
Incidentally, the actual chair of the Theology department is Kenneth Himes, a Franciscan, for what that's worth.