Values based verses liberal arts education

Lergnom
Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:27:29 +0000

I don’t think it matters much. My reason is somewhat idiosyncratic: you are what you are and that is all nearly everyone needs in life. It doesn’t matter to me if people go to a fundamentalist college or some other one that distorts truth to fit a religious agenda. That’s their choice. It only matters to me if they choose to inflict their beliefs on me and that is happening in society anyway.

Note that I don’t count Boston College, for example, as having a “religious agenda” though it is in some ways more responsive to the Church’s specific orders than it was for a time. But Liberty University, where the front page says they’ve “been Training Champions for Christ through Christian Education” since 1971? I don’t care if people go there. That’s their lives. I wouldn’t hire them. I think less of them because I reflect their judgmental values back at them, but I don’t care about their choices in life. And it doesn’t matter for them either. They can run businesses, raise families, etc. just like godless heathens. Some will be happy, others will be miserable. Some will be alcoholics. Some will be nice people. Some will be terrible parents. And so on.