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Unrealistic

posted 9 years ago by djsinsd
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Never once, in my entire educational experience, did I encounter any teacher or professor who said God is dead or tried to otherwise convince myself or my fellow classmates that our personal beliefs are wrong or we should not have them. Quite the contrary, we always were simply educated on what is known, proven, verifiable, and/or scientifically sound. When it came to faith, well that's up to another institution to teach called church.

The only ones I know of who proselytize faith and use religious absolutism are theists. Perhaps that is why so many of them see secular education as doing the same. Because they are so concerned with every facet of life reinforcing their religion that when they sit in a class room that doesn't proselytize their beliefs they actually see this proselytizing absence as a direct challenge to their beliefs.

Republicans are a party of bad ideas and the Democrats are a party of no ideas. Or other way around?

[–] blubird-1 9 years ago

the homeschool Christian crowd pump out the idea that Universities is why so many people are liberal or have turned away from god. Spreading the lie that professors in these universities sole intent is too turn the innocent flowers into raging foaming at the mouth liberals. this movie is for that crowd that believes everyone is out to get them, its for the creationists that believe the world in 6,000 years old. The us versus them mentality. Of course they aren't going to paint a professor as what reality is, they paint them with the unreality they have been brainwashed with and now are telling their kids.

[–] Monk_Drunk 8 years ago

its for the creationists that believe the world in 6,000 years old

I don't think this part is specifically true, since they don't try to counter the idea that the Universe is ~13 billion years old. In fact, there's a scene where they use it to pull one over on scientists, as the physicist behind Big Bang Cosmology - Georges Lemaitres - was also a Catholic priest whose idea was at odds with the prevailing scientific view of the time (1920s/30s) that the Universe was eternal and without a beginning or an end, yet was ultimately shown to be correct.

[–] DreamingOfASong 8 years ago

I agree. This film was unbearably unrealistic in that regard. There's no way a university professor could act that way without consequences. It seems like the film just needed an atheist "bad guy" to set things in motion, but they made the professor far too arrogant and antagonistic; it just wasn't believable. I found the film relied too heavily on stereotyping both atheists and theists.