I recently read that a Notre Dame group – We Stand For1 – walked out on Mike Pence – stating:
“Our members lived in South Bend when Mike Pence was governor. We know all too well how his policies endangered or caused direct harm to public education, health care, women’s rights, the environment, LGBTQ individuals, immigrants and refugees, reproductive rights, local infrastructure, the economy of our state, and more.”2
In other words, the group is pro-abortion, pro-LBGTQ agenda, socialistic, does not believe in the rule of law, and does not believe God made the planet for man; and is for indoctrinating students with these ideas. In summary, they do not have a biblical world view.
Notre Dame is the premier Catholic college. Why would Notre Dame students be anti-biblical as well as go against the teaching of the church? Would it be because the Catholic Church has not taught parishioners that they can believe the Bible? Could it be because the current Pope, as well as previous Popes, have bought into the General Theory of Evolution and the big bang theory, which are really philosophical materialism?3 Could it be that this compromising of the creation account has compromised biblical authority in general? In my book Why Should I Believe?, I give examples of how the church has compromised only to be proven wrong. There is a reason God warned Jeremiah in Jeremiah 15:19 – “You must influence them; do not let them influence you!”4 The church undermining the Bible will of course lead parishioners to follow secular humanistic philosophy, which is based on philosophical materialism –something that Isaiah 50:11 warns about – “But watch out, you who live in your own light and warm yourselves by your own fires.”5
Terry Read