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Todd Hartch<\/span>, an assistant professor of history at Eastern Kentucky University, has some great points on how Christians<\/span> can save the rotting apple from total decay<\/a>. It\u2019s worth the read. My only problem is, he writes as though the samethink<\/span> and demands for conformity<\/span> to secular, liberal, and anti-traditional values is something new. As a self-proclaimed liberal agnostic in the 1980s, I noticed that my own state university<\/span> was no more open toward wrongthink<\/span> as it is today. It\u2019s more graphic, it\u2019s more obvious, hatred and contempt for wrongthink<\/span> is encouraged, but apart<\/span> from that, the basic viewpoints and value systems haven\u2019t changed since I was in school all those years ago. <\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Todd Hartch, an assistant professor of history at Eastern Kentucky University, has some great points on how Christians can save the rotting apple from total decay. It\u2019s worth the read. My only problem is, he writes as though the samethink and demands for conformity to secular, liberal, and anti-traditional values is something new. 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