Based on the history of educational institutions run by Western churches, Kung argues that university secularization has been going on for hundreds of years, and that differentiating universities from theological seminaries and Buddhist academies is already established practice. What's important is that "religious groups can run universities, but the education should not be in itself religious."
從西方教會辦學的歷史來看，龔鵬程認為，大學世俗化也有數百年歷史，大學與神學院、佛學院分流，早成定局，重要的是「宗教辦大學，並不是辦成宗教大學」。