It might look as though that was the project all along but as I see it, through the 19th and first part of the 20th century, the moral goal of the university was to make a more rational, scientific version of Christianity. I wasn't around then but I believe that this way of thinking held until the 1960s when moral relativism became popular.
The fact that the social justice 'religion' began in the universities a few decades ago and now holds sway in our institutions means that there are many in universities who think they have something better than religion.
I would agree with you Paul but would argue that the universities never tried to replace the church. They only wanted to deconstruct and destroy it...
It might look as though that was the project all along but as I see it, through the 19th and first part of the 20th century, the moral goal of the university was to make a more rational, scientific version of Christianity. I wasn't around then but I believe that this way of thinking held until the 1960s when moral relativism became popular.
The fact that the social justice 'religion' began in the universities a few decades ago and now holds sway in our institutions means that there are many in universities who think they have something better than religion.
We have at least you Paul