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I sifted through the introduction and read through the first few chapters, and realized this was not for my taste. I thought it would be about how the college effectively trained the students to be evangelicals but ends up exposing their faults. While there’s nothing wrong with this, I just felt mislead by the title. Decided to DNF this one and find something better

“They are secure enough in their power to know that they can respond to trying times without falling apart as a movement.”

“It took the conservative political movement 30 years to become a fixture in American politics and it’s taken evangelicals about the same amount of time. Evangelicals remain chronically ambivalent afflicted with a persecution complex despite their obvious successes. They now control enough interests groups, think tanks and production companies to employ Christians for generations to come.

“We can appreciate any human being who contributes to learning without seeing them as an enemy to be defeated.”

“God is fruitful in all circumstances. No matter how bleak they appear to the human eye.”

“People say he’s ultra-conservative. But how conservative could he be if he likes you?”

“As Christians we don’t focus on what we can get away with. We focus on God. We can learn what’s going on in the culture without soaking ourselves in evil.”

“The scene involved the kind of code-speak that’s used by the growing number of Christian filmmakers working in Hollywood; they tell a story that’s understood one way by a Christian audience and another way by everyone else.”

“The scene involved the kind of code-speak that’s used by the growing number of Christian filmmakers working in Hollywood; they tell a story that’s understood one way by a Christian audience and another way by everyone else.”

“She and other misfits kept banging their heads against the close-in walls, craning their necks to see if they’d missed an open window somewhere and giving themselves headaches in the process.”

“If you obey God in the first thing He shows you then He instantly opens up the next truth to you. But if we turn away from obedience for even one second, darkness and death are immediately at work again.”

“She says she wants to bring him to salvation, but we can’t offer salvation. Only God can offer salvation. Some seeds can fall on fallow ground…God tells us in choosing a mate they can’t be unequally yoked.”

“A prudent Christian will not let himself drift str by step into perdition.”

“After the Fall, we humans were left with a powerful sin nature that will overtake us unless we are careful at all times…the prohibition against certain vices is known as Prudential as opposed to scriptural. Some Christians subject themselves to lifestyle rules as an extra method of precaution.

“As many a disappointed fundamentalist has discovered, the age of purity is always just out of reach; the demons still lurking among the ivy.

The student body settles on a reverse mascot who represents the anti spirit of the school. The girl— it is usually a girl— can vary from recklessly defiant to bold to somewhat mysterious. She is often at least pretty and may be beautiful…she has all the ingredients for popularity but spends time alone— a lethal combination that leaves her susceptible to rumors.

“A deliberate attempt has been made to distort the facts of the past in order to manipulate the future.”

“It was proving quite difficult to train his children to take over the world and to shield them from it at the same time. What galled him most was that corruption was coming from within his own institution…the very professors he’d hired to protect and guide his young were instead leading them astray…students cannot properly enter the world in battle with muddled thinking..”

“Farris wants spies in the land of Canaan….Canaan leaves its mark, especially on the impressionable young.”

“In exchange for accepting some aspects of modernity— autonomy of scientific inquiry, feminism— those groups got to shed alienation and have an impact on the culture.”

“To do that he had to turn himself into…using Scripture to justify the standard Republican platform, sounding certain but making little sense.”

“The Archers found themselves in a position like that of many immigrants: They prepare their children for great things and then have to adjust when one day the children float away to a higher plane.”

“In conservative circles homeschoolers are considered to be something of an elite group— rough around the edges but pure in their focus, capacity for work, and ideological clarity.”