According to InterVarsity's poll, 39% of students, most of whom are born-again Christians, said racial justice is their first priority out of more than a dozen choices, including religious freedom. 29% said climate change was their most important concern, and abortion came in third at 28%.
Alex McFarland of Truth for a New Generation believes biblical concerns should be more of a priority for Christian students.
"These contrived emergencies like human-induced global warming and the idea that America is somehow systemically, structurally racist and unjust -- these are manufactured causes of the left that they're using to try to turn us more Marxist," McFarland submits.
"If they're not part of overtly a biblical worldview, they're not what a Christian needs to involve himself with," he continues.
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He suspects the priorities have been systematically set by colleges that have been "woke" for decades.
"Wokeness and biblical justice are two vastly different things," the apologist insists. "Wokeness is code-speak for the left's most recent attempt, their strategy du jour to turn this country secular and Marxist."
And a secular, Marxist country, he warns, has at least two concerns on its target list: Christians' morals and religious freedom.
"The unsaved, godless people in the Biden administration, starting with the president himself, are working so that there is no legal protection for the unborn; we don't have rights of religious expression," McFarland observes.
The poll also found that despite many lawsuits surrounding their presence on secular campuses, around 75% of those surveyed believe college campuses are "extremely," "very," or "moderately" supportive and welcoming of evangelicals.
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is an inter-denominational, evangelical Christian campus ministry.