Campus Preachers Push Limits Analysis

“Campus Preachers Push Limits” Critique
People—especially college students—will always have conflicting views about the campus preachers and whether or not one agrees with them. The true question is if they cross a line. Do the campus preachers ever enter into a territory that invokes violence? If so, does that mean they should still be protected by the first amendment? This is a very important thing that Amy Mariani, a sophomore who is majoring mass communication, brings up in her article “Campus Preachers Push Limits.” Mariani starts off her analysis with a personal statement that rings true to her analysis, “If an atheist witnessed any displays of "Christianity" portrayed by the campus evangelists, he or she would be pushed even further away from believing in a god.” She makes a wonderful example of how other students interpret the campus preachers and is making a point that they are doing more harm than good to their cause. She also hits her readers with fact right off the bat, talking about a specific incident that occurred on her campus involving a woman who would like to remain anonymous.
Providing the name of the street preacher, John M. Kranert, Mariani proceeds to inform her readers about the many ways he harassed this woman; …show more content…
She starts her argument out with what seems to be credible sources, but as a reader you just have to trust that she has first-hand experience with the issue; since you cannot easily check her sources. When comparing the situation of someone falsely yelling “fire” in a crowded theater does not make much sense to me as a reader. Someone yelling “fire” in a crowded theater seems a lot more extreme than Kranert yelling at a woman, who is supposedly dressed conservatively, a whore. Mariani later goes on to discuss her own feelings as a Christian seeing another Christian acting like this, saying that Kranert is being