(How receptive/antagonistic are the students at UNCW of Christianity/Christians, i.e. are they open to discussing and considering it when engaged by a fellow student?)
There is a small but growing Gaystapo on our campus. There are also some very militant feminist students. Two ways to avoid trouble are 1) to live off campus with like-minded roommates (the Resident Assistants, who are themselves students, sometimes facilitate censorship of religious opinions) and 2) avoid taking classes ending with the word "studies." These two measures alone will help avoid many of the more militant students.
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"are they open to discussing and considering it when engaged by a fellow student?"
That depends. Are they being engaged volutarily, or are they ambushed by roving evangelists who insist on imposing their views on other students?
I hate to tell you, but one of the great thing about college is the opportunity to meet people who don't think the same way you do.
G-Gaystapo?
Is that actually a word that is used unironically?
I'm sorry, I don't have anything to add to this one. I'm just too distracted by the fact that the word "Gaystapo" exists.
For those wondering about the "Gaystapo" bit, the AFA has a lie going out that Hitler's early Brownshirts were all gay, they were formed in a gay bar, and this was because straight people couldn't be as vicious as gays. Yeah.
@aebars,
Bear in mind that many of the people who hold those views of college tend to stay within a certain bubble. They've been taught that the free market is infallible, so any acknowledgement of the contrary by a university professor must mean college is communist. In terms of religion, they've never been exposed to the idea of skepticism, so they feel horribly overwhelmed when they encounter actual atheists as opposed to the Jack Chick strawmen. In terms of gender roles, even if they aren't sexist, they still have certain views on how women are supposed to be more docile than men, so when they meet an assertive woman who cuts her hair short and dyes it, cue the freakout.
Conservatives/fundies/white nationalists/MRAs/Randroids/neoreactionaries/ad nauseam subscribe to the most preposterous strawmen regarding what colleges are like. I've been enrolled for four years and counting by now, and in that time, never, not once, have I been forced to attend an anti-racism class in which I've been told how evil whites are. Never, not once, have I been forced to attend a sexual harassment class in which I've been told how evil men are. Never, not once, has a professor ordered me to read Das Kapital. Never, not once, have I bore witness to a homosexual orgy. I mean, have any of these people ever actually attended college? Stick your dumb conspiracy theories up your asses already!
Yes, by all means, avoid people who are different from you, I mean, dear God, you might learn something.
avoid taking classes ending with the word "studies."
So that would include the "American Studies" programs at U. Alabama, UVA, UNC, Boston College, et al.
How about the "Christian Studies" courses at a number of Baptist colleges (e.g., Oklahoma Baptist, Dallas Baptist, California Baptist, et al.)?
You still won't be safe from members of teh Evil Gay Agenda, like me, and my friends the militant feminists. We're everywhere bud. We take classes outside of GDS & Women's studies. My college's GSA used to hold an event called "Live Homosexual Acts" where we would do homo stuff on campus for all you heteros to see. The only place you could avoid is your home really. Just stay home, but don't watch TV cuz we're on there too. Just read your Bible and starve to death.
I'd say you'll be safer living A LONG WAY away from campus, and never visit the university, at all. You might learn stuff about real life, that will rock your comforting world, and might meet people with different opinions than your pastor's. Btw, the Gestapo were misogynists and homophobes, just like you.
I have a colleague who grew up in the Bible Belt of Sweden and has read the Bible a number of times. He and I often discuss Christianity and Christians. Not in the way Mikey-Mike would prefer tough, as we both know wa-hay too much about it for him to manage to sway us.
Don't almost all classes end with the word "studies"? That is, after all, what you do at university; study .
Let me guess, dearie; you'd think the answer "no thanks, I'm not interested in your apologetics" is a clear sign of militancy, right?
@ dfmstudies
American Studies are bad because they contain stuff about the cause of the War of Northern Aggression, why slavery was not all beneficial to African-Americans, why Republicans busted trusts in the Gilded Age, and that the reason Barry Goldwater wasn't elected was not because he wasn't conservative enough. Christian Studies are evil because they tell you the Bible isn't a seemless, infallible whole but written by a host of people at different times with different opinions, that Christians have been more persecutors than persecuted, that Protestant Evangelicals represent a small proportion of Christians in history and outside the United States, and that the history of Christian thought is littered with dead ends and false apocalypses. Theology and history are bad things for fundies to study.
The Gaystapo in action:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVYug8cHLIM
"are they open to discussing and considering it when engaged by a fellow student?"
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