| I've found the majority of Cornellians to be somewhat apathetic about religion. The university itself is very secular, but it does pander somewhat to the religious (test makeups for religious holidays, the Center for Jewish Living, passover food in the dining halls, lots of money to United Religious work and a huge building in the middle of campus, every Christian denomination you can imagine has a group, etc...). So I guess Cornell, as an institution, is very tolerant of religiously active students.
From a personal perspective, I rarely hear religious affairs being discussed by students. There is also not really an atheistic/anti-theism presence on campus. I attended an atheist club meeting 3 years ago and only 5 people showed up the whole semester. However, interim President Rawlings gave his state of the university address in 2005 about the Intelligent Design controversy. Throughout, I think there were implications of Christianity and religion in general being a detriment to scientific inquiry.
In general, people really don't care.
For a perspective, I'm a moderately conservative atheist. Would never vote Replubican however because of the religious issue. |