A True Story of the State of Christianity on a Public Uni--A while back!

Way back in the early 1990s, one of my friends, C, was enrolled at a large southern Uni. that really loves football (doesn't narrow it down much, does it?). He tells the story, that he, “... had grown up in a Christian home, but at the University his History teacher and his English teacher and his Anthropology and Philosophy teachers as well, attacked vigorously the truth of the Holy Scriptures and the stories of the gospel. In History, the resurrection of Jesus was “an odd rumor”; the Israelites were originally polytheistic and Moses got the idea of Monotheism from Pharoah Akenaten, plus Noah and the flood was a myth. His English teacher stated as fact that the Bible was passed down orally for hundreds of years, supposedly using rhyme and meter to help with memorization. In Anthropology he was assured that we descended from apes and the creation story in the Bible was myth. In Philosophy of Mind he was taught that the self was no more than a few pounds of gray matter inside our skull and the non-existence of a soul or of God was assumed.”

My friend believed his many profs, and so by the time he graduated he had rejected one by one the reliability of all the books in the Bible except for Matthew and John, because they knew Jesus personally, unlike Paul, Luke and Mark. He didn’t abandon his faith, but it was hanging by a thread. His sister majored in Anthropology and eventually became an atheist.

Right after graduating C came across an article in the campus newspaper written by a senior student in Arts & Sciences. The student was an atheist who had been challenged by apologetics and was losing his faith in atheism. This was the first C had ever heard of apologetics. One of the authors the atheist writer recommended was Josh McDowell, so C immediately went to a Christian bookstore and bought Evidence That Demands A Verdict, volumes 1 and 2. These books gradually rebuilt his trust in the Bible and “saved” his faith.

The thing that strikes me is the timing. In 1991 the Supreme Court of the USA declined to hear an appeal of an 11th Circuit Court opinion that had ruled that a University was justified in telling a professor that he could not mention Christianity on the University campus. The first Amendment of the US Constitution states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...”.

So let's step back. It appears that, at the time, it was illegal to speak POSITIVELY of Christianity, but perfectly legal to speak NEGATIVELY of Christianity.

Regardless of your legal knowledge or even your personal views of Christianity, do you see anything wrong with this picture??