Oregon ODA Hates Black People

[Virtual Bison]

I have highlighted your last sentence in bold because that is the sentence that inspired me to state the following:

Bill Grover, the deceased uncle and some others on that site are linked to South African institutions, some of which I still suspect to operate in the old "Apartheid" spirit of the old days. Theologically, they are followers of Calvin (the uncle was not, as he was a Lutheran) who claimed that there are/were certain kind of people chosen by God over others (implying that not all people are equal before God). South African churches in the Calvinist Reformed tradition tended to use this Calvinist doctrine to explain Apartheid theologically - God had chose the "white" man to rule over the "black" men - how wrong they were!

Is it perhaps because of this that they are putting down all schools with a mission statement to provide the best of quality education possible with humble means to Africa's people?

I am really gong to smell a rat...

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As for this Gollin guy, I think he is not interested nor competent enough in the field of religious and theological education. He may be a self-declared and self-appointed "missionary" against what he may consider degree mills.
But the way he comes across is not only "arrogant"; he also seems to be totally incompetent to pass any judgment on the quality of schools. In truth, he may follow his own hidden agenda.

Could I perhaps say he is an idiot and does not know anything he talks about? I feel inclined to do so!

Mr. Schmidt I find your ideas interesting. John Calvin, the French reformer based his doctrine on the principle of an elect of God. He based it on the old testament and, to a lessor extent, on the ideas of St. Augustine of Hippo. This was, to an extent a negation of the doctrine that Christ promoted regarding salvation being available to all who believe.

During the era of the Reformation, this doctrine became popular in mercantile communities because it held that the road to salvation is in acquiring material wealth. Wealth, good health and good fortune are all signs of blessing from God.

Now the Anabaptist movement, along with Quakerism, the Great Awakening which promoted Methodism and the Baptist doctrines were seen as rejection of Calvinism and this, in turn was instrumental in promoting the ideals of the Enlightenment and some may argue the American and French Revolutions.

But to get to this Gollin guy. Yes hes a buffoon. But a dangerous one at that. Remember that the Stalinist purges were made possible by buffoons. Stalin surrounded himself with yes-men. He preferred incompetent and sometimes very stupid people rather than those who were capable because he saw less a threat to his power base. Gollin would have made an ideal Stalinist for that reason.