Today is my 10th wedding anniversary, so I am in a reminiscing-about-my-wedding mood. :) I distinctly remember that angst you discuss at the end - the “Are we this kind of couple, or are we that kind of couple” dilemma that seemed to impose itself at the crossroads of every decision. It all felt so...if not quite…

I, too, fight the good fight in the classroom teaching cultural anthropology, and I wouldn’t dream of insulting a student’s parents/economic status/religion etc. I DO teach them critical thinking skills using anthropological topics as the examples of how to use those skills; and it’s pretty amazing (and gratifying)…

Right? It quickly became obvious that the students who knew the most about the history of Christianity were the non-Christians. The rest were hopeless. They did not want to learn about their own religion. They did not want to think. I’m not sure how any of them passed the class, because that prof was tough as nails.

Please come back when your reading comprehension has improved.

There are definitely some right-wing evangelists lurking around as well, especially in the econ departments. Probably not as many, but they’re there.

I took a world religions class where 99% of the other students got butthurt over discussion of the First Council of Nicaea. Because the idea that the Bible was written by various authors, compiled and edited by a bunch of dudes over the course of centuries, and then a bunch of books were left out blew their tiny…

The Healthcare Games? Isn’t that their idea of a good system?

If more people grasped that there should be no clash between religious belief and serious scientific analysis many of these morons would be defanged.

They all watched that religious propaganda movie “God is Not Dead” and decided all liberal professors must be like that frothing lunatic played by Kevin Sorbo. In real life any prof who pulled that stunt would be slapped down so hard by the dean he’d have trouble getting a reference for a burger flipping job.

“They’re going to indoctrinate you to think critically so that you can break free of indoctrination!” That fits right in with “They’re intolerant of my intolerance!”

She looks like an evil android that’s just been asked the meaning of love.

I'm super jealous of you right now.

that is profoooooooooundly unnerving.

As a liberal professor of writing (I’m sitting in my class RIGHT NOW), I would say that this is most closely related to “I use to do something”, and that it’s largely based on never seeing the word in print (i.e. reading), and when we pronounce “biased” and “used to”, we swallow the ends of the words.

This was my favorite part: “If a woman is hungry or is worried about a bomb falling from the sky due to poor foreign policy, birth control is really the last thing on her mind.” I know a number of women in the mountains of Nicaragua who can tell them a thing or two about poverty, war, and how much they very much want…

Plus, like, women TOTALLY choose to drop out of the workplace once they spit out a baby. I mean, childcare is free in this country, so with the wealth of choices women have in this matter, I’m shocked we aren’t winning awards for our treatment of women.

That’s the danger of having a religious system that primarily engages people on the preconventional stages of Kohlberg’s moral development.

Wait, indoctrination via the dismantling of a young adult’s worldview is bad. The boogeyman du jour does this in the same way as the military.

Grew up in a deeply conservative, religious house, with many home school-type friends (for example: my “sport” throughout middle and high school was competitive Bible verse memorization), and I was regularly warned against liberal indoctrination at college in exactly these terms. You know what happened? I went to…