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In reply to the discussion: How Oxford and Peter Singer drove me from atheism to Jesus [View all]Bretton Garcia
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Yes she went to Cambridge to work toward a PhD. But was it completed? Finally she ended up at Florida State, then west Sydney Australia as a "tenured lecturer ," which we are told is a professor in Australia.
She apparently doesn't actually know much about religion. Here's her over-idealistic summary:
'In the Summer of 2008, I began a new job as Assistant Professor at Florida State University, where I continued my research examining the relationship between the history of science, Christianity, and political thought. With the freedom of being an outsider to American culture, I was able to see an active Christianity in people who lived their lives guided by the gospel: feeding the homeless every week, running community centres, and housing and advocating for migrant farm laborers.'
If Sarah had looked more carefully at the FULL history of Christianity, she would have discovered its countless religious wars and executions.
I see her error fairly often; a person with a secular background, is sometimes vulnerable to Christianity's self aggrandizing claims. Just because a secular background did not give them the fuller view of Christianity; warts and all.
Looks like her attention was split between 1) science, 2) politics, and only then 3) religion.
https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/staff_profiles/search?query=Sarah+Irving&staff__flag=all