Posted May 24, 2016 4:37 pm by Comments

By Justin Stakes

Indiana University-Bloomington recently went into panic mode at the sight of a Dominican friar.

by Dr. Paul Kengor

Indiana University-Bloomington recently went into panic mode at the sight of a Dominican friar.
The Center For Vision & Values
The Center For Vision & Values

Grove City, PA -(Ammoland.com)- Students at Indiana University-Bloomington recently went into panic mode at the sight of a Dominican friar, who they mistook for a Ku Klux Klan member.

Funny? Yes, but also sad. It is a further sign of the state of our universities, and what is and isn’t being taught.

For starters, let’s get this on the blackboard: For a really long time, there have been religious guys in robes, flatly unmistakable in their appearance. This year, 2016 A.D. (Anno Domini, Latin for “In the Year of Our Lord”), just happens to mark the 800th anniversary of the Dominicans. The Dominicans, named for their founder, Dominic de Guzman, a Spanish priest and contemporary of another giant of the faith, Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscans, long pre-date the KKK. These “orders” preceded Luther’s Reformation by three centuries, and themselves were a vital reform in rekindling and sustaining the faith against some significant heresy.

(A related funny-but-sad story on the Franciscans: A Franciscan friar told …Read the Rest

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