Dr. Cory Miller, who holds a PhD in philosophical theology, spent more than a decade teaching students at Indiana University. He now leads Ratio Christi, an evangelistic ministry that helps students and faculty answer hard questions about Christianity and the Bible.
Asked what he is seeing on campuses today, Miller told American Family Radio the modern-day secular culture treats Christianity like a joke while illogical secular arguments are treated like religious dogma.
“Crazy things are now coming out of the university campuses,” he warned, “like we could never have imagined before.”
One example Miller cites is Harvard University. That famous campus, founded in the 1600s by the Puritans to train ministers, now allows Ivy League students to take a course taught by a visiting professor-drag queen (pictured at right) whose stage name is “LaWhore Vagistan.”
The professor, Kareem Khubchandani, taught a 2025 course called “Queer Ethnography” in the university’s Gender and Sexualities program, according to a New York Post story.
Miller, who visited Princeton University two months ago to talk to students, pointed out that famous campus is home to world-famous moral philosopher Peter Singer. Now retired from teaching, with emeritus status, Singer famously defended bestiality, or human-animal sex, on the basis that humans are animals, too.
Princeton University, founded in the 1700s by Presbyterians, is now famous for Singer sharing a soulless, humanistic view of mankind with generations of students, Miller warned.
Drawing from his years on campuses, Miller said the abandonment of Christianity and the gospel can be traced to Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci, the 20th century Italian-born Marxist.
Considered by many to be the “most dangerous” of the cultural Marxists, Miller said Gramsci does deserve credit for our modern-day culture. That's because he studied the West and understood Communism could never win an armed revolution to overthrow it.
“It's not ready, it's not primed for a frontal assault revolution, like the Russian or Chinese revolution,” Miller, citing Gramsci’s writings, explained.
Rather, Gramsci realized, a smarter plan was a slower, methodical infiltration of the West’s institutions in academia, media, politics, the courts, and religious institutions.
“And so they talked about the long march through the institutions,” Miller pointed out, citing the phrase attributed to German socialist Rudi Dutschke.
That is why the ratio of liberal-versus-conservative professors on a secular campus is a lopsided 12 to 1, Miller said, and those liberal professors have now influenced generations of students.
Another campus example Miller shared with guest host Alex McFarland is critical race theory. CRT is the belief that minorities cannot succeed because white people are naturally racist and therefore maintain a race-based power structure.
Critical race theory is a cousin to critical theory, the Marxist-based theory about the wealthy exploiting the poor. CRT can be traced to Harvard Law professor Derrick Bell and another law professor, Kimberle Crenshaw, who gave it its current name in the 1980s.
Like other liberal arguments, Miller said the success of critical race theory depends on feelings and emotions. White students are told to feel guilty and ashamed for their race rather than being persuaded by an intellectual argument.
"They're trying to make people feel bad into ascribing to their worldview that's supposed to be 'injustice to justice.' In reality, it's an abortion of justice," Miller said.
Against that backdrop of spiritual darkness, Miller said Ratio Christi – Latin for “The Reason of Christ” – has grown into about 100 college chapters and 25 high school chapters in the U.S. It is also operating in 15 countries on six continents.
“We've been just watching God do wonders, seeing souls saved at the universities, and seeking by God's grace to save the soul of the university,” he said.
