TLDR: where I live (south america) there are a few select universitys that force a religious doctrine on students, what are your opinions on this?
So, in latin America there are a few unis that are run by the catholic church and some other religious institutions, some of them are actually quite good. Im a student at one of them and im infuriated by the amount of bullshit they’re forcing down our throats, im about to graduate and have had to endure about 5 courses whose soul purpose was to “bring us closer to god” in some shitty ways
•The origin of life/origen de la vida: Denied any scientific theory about the creation of the universe and life, and pressured us to agree that creationism was the only truth
•Life goals/ proyecto de la vida: Was about how the only way to truly succeed in life was following the strict guidelines of the bible
•Ethnology and psychology / Etnopsicología: Was specially disappointing as a psychology student, it centered around how Darwin’s theory of evolution was not only false, but did great damage to humankind, causing Hitler, racism in general, whatever war raged on the face of the planet and every evil ever created The book they made us read for this was: los desastres producidos por el Darwinismo la humanidad by Harun Yaha, if you want to hate someone new I recommend you read it
•Cience and faith/ Ciencia y fe: Was all about how atheists caused great harm to society and I had to whiteness my uni professor tell a whole class of psychology students that depression could not be cured by a therapist o psychiatrist but only by coming closer to god and only affected those who strayed to far from god
•Christian ethics/Etica cristiana: Is about how morals and ethics can only come from outside of oneself, and only the bible has been a constant in human history on which one can rely to be a good human being
I mean, isn’t higher education here to open our eyes to the world? I feel sad and angry whenever I think of how hard they push me to close my mind to everything but the “word of god” and I want to know what you think
Submitted July 24, 2020 at 04:10AM by So_what_11 https://ift.tt/2OOPfAj
