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Philosophobia
Steve Wilkens had a problem. He had just gotten a job teaching introductory college courses in philosophy. Now there's nothing wrong with that, except that Wilkens had never actually taken an introductory philosophy course, and he was afraid of the subject.
In his latest book, he explains why he was afraid of the subject. In his undergraduate years, he writes, "While no one ever said it explicitly, a message had been quite effectively communicated from all the sources I relied on for good advice: Stay away from philosophy. It isn't the type of thing that is good for a Christian. In fact, it is downright dangerous. It may not be on any list of official psychological disorders, but I had a severe case of 'philosophobia,'" he says.