{"id":2121,"date":"2013-05-02T06:55:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2013-05-02T06:55:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:55:41","slug":"focus-on-the-familys-true-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/05\/02\/focus-on-the-familys-true-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on the Family&#8217;s &#8220;True U&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Focus on the Family has a plan to keep college age students in the fold. They&#8217;ve produced a series of DVDs titled &#8220;TrueU&#8221; aiming to keep the kids getting influenced by all those godless professors they&#8217;ll likely encounter after high school graduation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A promotional video for a series of DVDs being marketed as &#8220;TrueU&#8221; notes that &#8220;increasing numbers of college students are losing their faith&#8221; and &#8220;60% of all biology &amp; psychology professors are atheist or agnostic.&#8221;\u00a0 According to TrueU&#8217;s promotional video (embedded below), scientific developments point to the existence of the Christian god.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting. Stephen Meyer, the video presenter, claims all these university profs are completely &#8220;out of touch&#8221; with the latest developments in science. Huh. I was unaware of that. I always thought that universities were where a lot of the research took place, but I could be wrong. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr. Alex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical Seminary, is quoted on <a title=\"TrueU website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trueu.org\/en\/AboutUs.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>the TrueU website<\/strong><\/a> as saying, &#8220;In twenty-one years of working with youth and college ministries, rarely have I been as impressed as with Focus on the Family&#8217;s new series, TrueU.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose it&#8217;s time for me to become alarmed. However, I can&#8217;t help but think that the average prospective college student is unlikely to fall for this propaganda. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll be an effective fund raiser for Focus on the Family, though. Lots of scared parents will purchase it and these vids will gather dust for many years to come.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TrueU #1: Does God Exist?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MnawqqA7vmw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goddiscussion.com\/109121\/focus-on-the-familys-trueu-takes-on-new-atheism\/\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Focus on the Family has a plan to keep college age students in the fold. They&#8217;ve produced a series&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-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fyi","tag-fyi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","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=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}