Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Louie Crew) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Campus Crusade Message-ID: Date: 19 May 91 02:44:51 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 45 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu max_jedroom@oxy.edu (Jedidiah Jon Palosaari) writes: > I want to get a hold of information on Campus Crusade. > How it works, what it's policies are or theological > leanings, it's methods, on what kind of campuses it's > usually on, if any specific type, etc. If anyone has > information on the college organization, could they please > mail back to this address? max_jedroom@oxy.edu Campus Crusade and Intervarsity are heterosexual cults. They bann all lesbian and gay Christians. Once in a rare while they will minister to a person with AIDS, not out of affirmation of that person's worth as a child of god, but as a way of earning credit in heaven on some kind of salvation score card. Guilt is one of their major modes. I first encountered them in the 1950 while I was at a university in the South. They stood squarely behind the segregation of the time. Only when segregation became unpopular did they change. They follow rather than lead. They have never been involved in any of the major social justice issues of our time. Instead, they direct people to a narrow personal salvation, not towards a savior of the whole world. They will not encourage you to read widely in world religions; they will not encourage you to inform yourself of the vast amount of literary scholarship that has been exercised on the bible. They will encourage you to place very intense bible quiz games, and some will even require you to master Hebrew and Greek, but only to ratify received interpretations, not to open yourself to the full body of available interpretations and the full range of texts those skills could allow you to access. If you still want to find them, look in the Directory of Associations in your campus Reference Room. Louie Crew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .lcrew@draco.rutgers.edu Academic Foundations Department . . . . . . . CompuServe No. 73517,147 Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey. . . . . . 201-485-4503 h P. O. Box 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201-648-5434 o Newark, NJ 07101 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201-648-5700 FAX Only a dead fish floats with the current.