Christian vs secular campus life

huitzlopochtli
Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:10:35 +0000

My suite gets along perfectly - we have a buddhist, a christian (me), a hindu, and an agnostic (all of us are fairly devout) - we have religious discussions all the time, but we are able to both honestly, and openly, discuss our beliefs without the fear that we might offend each other. Rice has this environment - everyone respects the other party as intelligent enough not to take a particular belief as a personal attack, and is also able to go about daily life without feeling smothered by any particular brand of religion. Again, what will not be tolerated, is a demeaning of anyone’s intelligence based on stereotypes of religion.

With that said, I agree with torrestowers, when I say that the implication is lauras50’s post was that anyone who believed in ID was not as intellectually sound as an evolutionist.

I don’t call ID science, and don’t advocate teaching it in the classroom. I don’t believe in evolution, for reasons founded on purely on empirical evidence - not because my religion mandates anything (in fact, the question of evolution v. creationism is irrelavent to being a “good” Christian). The point is, I am not viewed as a little “wacko” b/c I don’t buy evolution…

Rice is an incredibly tolerant school - each student is handpicked to contribute something different to the social culture. No one is ostracized or viewed as “wacky” for a certain belief.