The fundamentalist [by which he meant Christian] parents of our fundamentalist students think that the entire “American liberal Establishment” is engaged in a conspiracy…. These parents have a point…. When we American college teachers encounter religious fundamentalists, we do not consider the possibility of reformulating our own practices of justification so as to give more weight to the authority of the Christian scriptures. Instead, we do our best to convince these students of the benefits of secularization…. Rather, I think those students are lucky to find themselves under the benevolent Herrschaft [teaching] of people like me, and to have escaped the grip of their frightening, vicious, dangerous parents.
Professor Richard Rorty
Cited in Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, by Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, pg 8-9
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