Top 10 Philosophical Challenges Christian Students Face at Secular Universities with Dr. Owen Anderson

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Every college student faces difficult situations, but Christian students at secular universities often encounter unique challenges designed to dismantle their faith. How can these students (and Christians everywhere) stay strong and defend their beliefs in environments that are hostile to their worldview?Dr. Owen Anderson, professor of philosophy and religious studies at Arizona State University, returns with an update on the current battle he's facing with the university and to share some of the biggest challenges and bad ideas that Christian students will encounter during their time at a secular college.Blog post: https://crossexamined.org/ten-philosophical-challenges-christian-students-face-at-secular-university... (https://crossexamined.org/ten-philosophical-challenges-christian-students-face-at-secular-university/)Owen's Website: https://drowenanderson.com/ (https://drowenanderson.com/)Owen's Substack: https://drowenanderson.substack.com/ (https://drowenanderson.substack.com/)

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen what are the top 10 philosophical challenges Christian students face at a secular university. In fact these top 10 philosophical challenges aren't
0:18.7	just what Christian students will face at a secular university.
0:25.3	They are what you will face just in our culture in general.
0:29.5	So how do you know what they are?
0:31.9	And then how do you answer them when you hear about them?
0:36.8	When they are thrown in your face or maybe even just subtly assumed.
0:43.0	That probably happens more than anything.
0:45.0	Some of these things we're going to talk about today
0:47.5	are just assumed.
0:49.8	Now, if you want to be prepared in the culture in general or for the culture in general or your
0:56.6	kid you're going to send that kid off to a secular university or you yourself are going to a secular university, you need to pay close attention
1:05.3	because we have back by popular demand Dr. Owen Anderson. We had Owen on a couple of weeks ago.
1:11.1	He is a philosophy professor from Arizona State University where we visited a couple of weeks ago and he and I had some email exchanges and met one another at the event and Owen is very well informed as to what's
1:26.0	going on on a university. He's been at Arizona State for 24 years and as you may
1:31.4	remember there's a couple of conflicts he has with the administration at Arizona State University.
1:38.0	One is they tried to put him through a DEI program, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, which
1:45.0	contradicted with his moral and religious beliefs. That's actually a lawsuit
1:50.5	right now. And then secondly secondly folks at the university tried to tell him how to
1:56.8	teach his intro to Christianity class so before we get into the top 10
2:02.4	philosophical objections you're going to hear from our culture
2:06.1	and from a secular university, let me go back to Dr. Owen Anderson.
2:10.6	Here he is, ladies and gentlemen. Owen.
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