Posted on 10/07/2004 10:00:11 PM PDT by Coleus
Universities banning that with which one disagrees is the road to intellectual mediocrity. One gets toughened by facing one's interlocutor. Absent that, one gets rather lazy and flaccid. JMO.
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But Tucci wasn't coming to debate abortion. He was coming to talk about films. The purpose of banning him is NOT to make sure the students don't know what the pro-abortion people think; it is to prevent the scandal of acting as though pro-abortion people are respectable citizens. When a liberal university gives an honorary degree to David Duke, I will consider whether a Catholic university should give an honorary degree to Ted Kennedy. (Although Kennedy is immeasurably more evil.)
Good point, and it makes it even more execrable. Is the place going to ban the best and brightest speaking in say the field of physics or foreign policy because of their views on abortion? Crazy.
So young lady, that justifies selling your soul to the Devil?
An agnostic university, or a Catholic University?
Where to begin?
Satan has already declared war against the unborn. 40 million babies have been slaughtered in their mothers' wombs since 1973. It's time we started acting like there's a war on.
You miss the point entirely. It is immoral for a Catholic (or any) institution to provide aid and comfort to those who advocate murder. There is no reasoning with evil. There is no common ground. There is only the fight against it.
Good for them. I teach at a Catholic U. and they are having a major pro-homosexual speaker sometime this year. It's outrageous. From the standpoint of truth, it's like inviting a pro-flat-earth speaker just to have "diversity."
Disagree. Christian Universities did just fine---were the leading lights in the Middle Ages---following Christian doctrines. Encouraging Satanism speakers and pro-homosexual speakers is utterly ridiculous at a Christian school.
By the way, many of the degrees aren't worth much anyway. I place little stock in merely having a "college degree." I know far too many graduates!
This frustrates me to no end.
I say to people, "You went to college. Were you impressed?"
"No, but you have to have a degree today to get a job."
This is the near-universal response. So how is this employment system based on credentialism perpetuated?
An unfortunate example of this is Notre Dame...which hasn't been a Catholic school for ages; rather it has become an institution that welcomes all just so long as they spew the abortion or anti-religious propaganda.
As in public schools, the homosexuals have a willing stage from which to express their agenda and actually recruit new members.
Your shining city on a hill doesn't shine and conservative students must wear your suspected intellectual strait jacket.
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There are two parts to this response.
First, one who wishes to learn the opposition's viewpoint need only read CNNABCNBCCBS, or step across the campus boundaries to visit Planned Parenthood's offices. FWIW, Thomas Aquinas always used the arguments of the Church's opponents, and then dismantled them. It's not hard to learn what the opponents have to say.
Secondly, it's one thing to allow a forum for discussion; it's another thing entirely to PAY someone to show up and slap the Faith around.
It is a lie, too. You DON'T need a college degree to "get a job," especially if you create your own. The largest class of millionaires in this country are self-employed who started their own companies. Something like 25% of all millionaires never went to college---10% never went to high school.
Great point. Dell, Gates and Jobs are prime examples. But some professions are impossible to enter without credentials, unfortunately.
Most college degrees are worth at least the price of the paper they're printed on.
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