You know that expression “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”
In the culture wars, it is the truism of truisms.
From the beginning of the culture wars (I don’t wish to debate when they started, perhaps all the way back to Adam & Eve) education has been the front lines. Sure, weapons and tactics change, but the end game remains the same. Control education, control the culture.
The age old and continuing battle has been over curriculum. You know the battles over Creation, Evolution, sex education, and trans-gendered lesbianic social inclusion studies.
But there are other battles waging of which you should be aware.
Professional McCarthyism.
The has recently been a new wave of professional McCarthyism aimed at …
July 29, 2010 at 7:21 pm
From a European perspective, the news coming from the US are just appalling. Such discrimination for religious reasons would simply not be conceivable in any of the European countries I know (and I have lived in three of them).
In the UK, any kind of religious discrimination is a criminal offence. An University saying "I am not going to accept anyone who has studied this and that in a religious institution" would be looking for huge trouble and the people responsible for such a thinking would be soon sending CVs around.
It is astonishing that in the "land of the free" such nazi-like ideological blindness should be not only allowed, but obviously considered by such institution as a badge of honour. Of course even the Uk isnot without problems (the controversy about the "education to homosexuality for shildren" is a point in case), but things do not arrive to such extremes.
If you don't wake up and protect your freedoms, you'll have such forms of thoughtcrime institutionalised in no time. This would be a catastrophe not only for Catholicism, but for the freedom of every one of his citizens.
M
July 29, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Mundador – you're joking, right? The UK is the worst offender! Catholic workers at hospitals can be fired for wearing a crucifix. Catholic teachers and students can be dismissed for wearing any religious symbols…EVERN AT CATHOLIC SCHOOLS. The phrase "Merry Christmas" is banned on ANY public property (even in 2nd hand shops) And let's not forget the monarch of your country cannot be Catholic under the bloody constitution.
You really were having a laugh with us there, weren't you?