Honestly, I’m gonna miss him when he drops out: (You would to if you ran a blog that mocks this type of idiocy)
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Wednesday that “the left” uses universities to indoctrinate young people for the purpose of “holding and maintaining power.”
After saying “we’ve lost, unfortunately, our entertainment industry,” Santorum told a Naples, Florida, audience that “we’ve lost our higher education, that was the first to go a long time ago.”
“It’s no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go to college,” said the former Pennsylvania senator. “The indoctrination that occurs in American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America. And it is indoctrination. If it was the other way around, the ACLU would be out there making sure that there wasn’t one penny of government dollars going to colleges and universities, right?”
He continued: “If they taught Judeo-Christian principles in those colleges and universities, they would be stripped of every dollar. If they teach radical secular ideology, they get all the government support that they can possibly give them. Because you know 62 percent of children who enter college with a faith conviction leave without it.“
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17 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.I had a faith conviction, but it was overturned by a higher court.
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I’m reposting this link on this thread because it’s topical.
http://www.livescience.com/18132-intelligence-social-conservatism-racism.html
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That makes sense. I would imagine that religious fundamentalism goes along with racism as well.
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If you want to indoctrinate people, the best bet is to train to be a preschool teacher, not a professor. Children are much more malleable at age five than they are at 21. If college makes students more secular, it’s because it makes them think more, not less.
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Well let’s look at the things people lie to their kids about:
- A fat man that sneaks down their chimney to deliver gifts.
- A bird that delivers babies to married couples.
- A rabbit that goes around pooping chocolate eggs (at least that was my take on it)
- A magical sky wizard who never shows any sign of his existence but will sentence you to eternal torture if you choose to not believe in him.
The thing is, once kids get old enough they start to figure out the flaws in these fictions. Parents then sheepishly admit “yeah, Santa’s not real.” Unfortunately that’s not the case with the sky wizard…
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In other words, the more education you have, the less likely you are to swallow Santorum.
Stay in school, kids!
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This guy makes me want to cry. I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
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While I’m sure he pulled that statistic out of his ass, I knew a lot of kids who went into college conservative and religious who came out liberal nonbelievers (and many who also came out). Maybe it was because liberal arts colleges are brainwashing machines, or maybe being an educated, thoughtful, and kind person with a basic grasp of history is incompatible with his belief system.
Then again, one of our few famous alumni is a notorious traitor who spied for the Soviets.
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My famous alum was Jerry Springer. Now how do you feel?
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See, Santorum is right! Jerry Springer is a Democrat!
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I went to Penn State.
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In general, smarter folks don’t believe in sky faries.
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(To the tune of Barnes & Barnes Fishheads)
Santorum, Santorum, icky sticky Santorum.
Santorum, Santorum, lick it up yum!
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This has nothing to do with Santorum, but the faith thing reminded me of it… My nephew was recently arrested for intoxication. When he called his mother, who was in another state, she found that her cell phone was not set up to accept collect calls, she could hear him, but he could not hear her. She tried calling the station, but they refused to relay any messages to him, she called a friend in the area, but the friend was not allowed to see him, or send anything to him, and they refused to relay any messages from her as well.
She told me that this is one of the hardest things she’s ever done, to listen to her child pleading and begging for her help and having no way of comforting him, or even letting him know that she’s listening.
Then she said something brilliant: “I wonder how God does it.”
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We she shouldn’t let them get away with that “Judeo-Christian” trope. It excludes the another large body of people who believe in the sky-daddy: Judeo-Christian-Islamic is what it should be.
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Yeah, it’s all the same BS from the same part of the world. I really don’t see how you couldn’t say Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition. In fact, Muslims often do this and I think they have a good case.
But none of this implies that their magic sky men exist.
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He’s right. In college, they teach you things like facts, critical thinking, and intellectual honesty. All things that have a clear liberal bias.
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