{"id":1631,"date":"2013-03-08T07:31:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T13:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2013-03-08T07:31:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T13:31:47","slug":"all-those-pesky-phds-at-skeptic-ink-have-wasted-their-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/03\/08\/all-those-pesky-phds-at-skeptic-ink-have-wasted-their-money\/","title":{"rendered":"All those pesky PhDs at Skeptic Ink have wasted their money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I mean seriously? Who would spend a gazillion dollars, fiddle away years of their youth, endure unbelievable pressure, probably sprout a few grey hairs in the process&#8230; all for a PhD. Especially when you can get one of those hummers for free from Cambridge?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s not exactly <em>that<\/em> Cambridge. I&#8217;m talking Cambridge Theological Seminar, Int. in the great state of Ohio. They boast 21k ministers from 131 nations, 19k churches worldwide, nearly 5k Bible chaplains, and over a thousand licensed Christian counselors.<\/p>\n<p>Woah.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to take any classes, no writing papers, just get your &#8220;statement of faith&#8221; approved and you&#8217;re good to go. Well, there&#8217;s a little more to it. You must sign a :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Statement of faith<\/li>\n<li>Statement of calling<\/li>\n<li>Statement of new birth<\/li>\n<li>Statement of authenticity<\/li>\n<li>Statement of world evangelism<\/li>\n<li>Statement of dedication to christ! (sic)<\/li>\n<li>Statement of absolute belief in scripture<\/li>\n<li>Statement of no same sex marriage\/homosexuality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, I <em>guess<\/em> I can understand why my fellow Skeptic Inkers wouldn&#8217;t go for this &#8220;school&#8221; considering they enjoy things like evidence, skepticism, truth, discussion, questions&#8230; crazy stuff like that. It&#8217;s quite the amusing website, though. Very colorful, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/files\/2013\/03\/PhD.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1632\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/files\/2013\/03\/PhD-300x187.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/files\/2013\/03\/PhD-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/files\/2013\/03\/PhD-1024x639.png 1024w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/files\/2013\/03\/PhD.png 1231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ministers-best-friend.com\/Free-Ordination-1-by-Cambridge-Theological-Seminary-by-NewtonStein.html\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I mean seriously? Who would spend a gazillion dollars, fiddle away years of their youth, endure unbelievable pressure, probably&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fyi","tag-fyi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}