"Christians have tended to despise the concept of philosophy. This has been one of the weaknesses of evangelical, orthodox Christianity - we have been proud in despising philosophy, and we have been exceedingly proud in despising the intellect. Our theological seminaries hardly ever relate their theology to philosophy, and specifically to the current philosophy. Thus, students go out from the theological seminaries not knowing how to relate Christianity to the surrounding world-view. It is not that they do not know the answers. My observation is that most students graduating from our theological seminaries do not know the questions." (Francis A. Schaeffer).
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Totally agree. I have even seen too many young Christians, even old ones, so caught up in their nice Christian world, esp if they are from nice middle class reasonably well off families, who just don't have a clue about what people really want to know. And they tell them what they think they should know without ever listening to them.
They spout their truths regardless of where the other person is.
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