Mrtyu-Mara
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Mrtyu-Mara
1. The college I went to was not like that. Now...there is a college here in Ohio known as the "party school", so it could be a possibility that college is all about sex, drugs, and parties on that campus. But on mine? Not really.
2. If a class did have a zealot Professor that pushed his/her views onto his/her students, I would of course side with the students. Forcing beliefs (no matter what they are), is not okay. I don't even go see atheism-driven movies most of the time, because they're usually just as bad when it comes to demonizing believers -- Christians especially.
I actually took an Introduction to Ethics class a few semesters back (which fell under Philosophy), and my teacher was too religious for my liking. He gave us all a textbook that he wrote for us, and while reading, it came across as highly biased in Christian religion. Needless to say, I dropped the class. I didn't cause a scene. I didn't b***h and complain. Reading the text book, and doing the homework, I simply said, "Nope." If I wanted to take a class for Christian ethics, I would have.
I won't ever say that teachers never cross the line when it comes to discrimination. Of course some do. No one is perfect. But to say that Christians and Christian groups across the United States suffer severe discrimination on MOST college campuses is a highly suspect to me.
I see. Well, I commend your maturity! I too watched the movie thinking, "I'm pretty sure a professor isn't allowed to make his students write that for a grade..." But then I saw it was apparently a true story. I'm sure there were exaggerations though, like you insinuated.
You know what I think is sad? In China, this is definitely more of a problem, but he had the least developed sub-pot.
I have a hard time believing that it's even "based off a true story." My reason being, if one felt their teacher was being a bigoted d**k, why not go to the Dean? Why even bother with the assignment at all? To attempt prove to this dogmatic, argumentative, heathenistic atheist that God does exist? Why is it absolutely necessary to defend your faith against someone with differing views -- particularly bigots? If they had gone to the Dean and said, "Yo, this b***h better check himself before he wrecks himself." then the entire assignment would've been dropped, and the teacher could've gotten suspended or fired. OR, if the teacher knew who went to the Dean, the student would've probably been pulled from the class.
Regardless, I rarely buy into the "true story" spiel.
( I have to go to bed after this post, which is too bad because is the most interesting conversation I've had today, I think. But: )
I can see the need to defend his faith. There is a saying that goes, "Philosophy teaches us about the world, the point, however, is to change it." Part of the Christian mission is to reach out to others and dispel the darkness. Part of dispelling darkness is to help others to hate a little less, so it would be considered uncharitable not to explain his position and try to get the professor to slack up on his theistic students. Maybe not to convert, per se, only the person can do that, but sow the seed of understanding.
On the other hand, that didn't seem to be Josh's intention... So. I don't know. But, there WOULD be a reason.
rmcdra
Oh okay.
No I wouldn't side with the professor because it's closed minded. I mean what kind of school would force students or professors to believe in a metaphysical stance without any argument... oh wait.
I gotta go to bed and that's a whole lot of handbook. But thanks for speaking with me anyway!
With that, I bid everyone a good time.