The Biggest Intellectual Struggle Christians Face at College Isn’t What You Think

The Majority Isn’t Always Right One of the most common questions I get from college students and from people thinking about what college students struggle with is about the most difficult objection to the faith they’re going to face. When you think about the average nineteen- or twenty-year-old college student, what’s the thing they struggle with the most? Many things could be obvious. It could be the problem of evil, the existence of God, or evolution. Those are all key issues. But actually, I don’t think that’s the most common question they face, and I don’t think that’s the thing that bothers people the most. So what is it that people struggle with the most? The average believer on the college campus looks around and realizes that virtually every single person he knows, including the vast majority of the professors that he studies under, thinks that he’s crazy. In other words, let’s imagine that 10 percent of the college campus is evangelical (and that’d probably be generous on some college campuses); that means 90 percent of a person’s classmates think Christianity is nuts and that it doesn’t make any sense at all. Surviving Religion 101 Michael J. Kruger Writing in the form of...