It might make you feel better to know that I am also uncomfortable with universities offering degrees or even entire departments devoted to such PC disciplines as Women's Studies, Black Studies and other such trendy New Age artsy-fartsy pap.
I have no problem with a sociologist or historian publishing or specializing in such esoteric knowledge, or even offering a course in it. But there's not enough there to really justify it as a complete field of study, or that would lead me to believe it is a worthwhile field of research worthy of being isolated from its parent discipline and standing on its own.
As in the business fields I pointed out before, I suspect many of these curricula have more to do with ideological indoctrination than with a fundamental understanding of natural or human reality.
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- ACK!! Our local school is planning a Bible course...
- An interesting development, and a significant sign.
- Thats what you get when you vote republican.... (n/t)
- So I gather you hate Jesus?
- You know that's an enormous leap, right?
- Rhode Island.
- Save it for college.
- Fine for college-bound kids.
- That was my thought, too.
- When I covered the Book of Job in college...
- Not at all..
- Read "The Sermon on the Mount" and compare that to "Christianity".
- You know that's an enormous leap, right?
- This atheist has no problem with this.
- Good post. I note you sent it to the newspaper, too.
- re: Theo logical message
- re: was upon not wasupon :-) (n/t)
- Bronze Age creation myth and Hellenistic philosophy.
- A slight modification with profound consequences.
- Bronze Age creation myth and Hellenistic philosophy.
- re: was upon not wasupon :-) (n/t)
- Recommended reading (or even a school text)