Have you ever suffered from secularist "Inquisitions" at University?

Answer 1

Not yet. In fact, my Christianity was well known by my biology teacher, and though I challenged his teaching publicly, I still got an A for the course. To his credit, my homework, labs and tests were graded (as they should be) according to the accuracy of their content. I was able to parrot back what he wanted, so I earned my grade.

It was an interesting quarter - in fact, at each point in a lecture when he displayed some of the more well known fraudulent or fallacious supports for evolution, I would challenge him on it (piltdown man, Haekel, peppered moths etc). In fact, he got so used to my putting up my hand that at one point he actually said, "I knew it! I knew you would challenge this!" Tellingly, this did no stop him from continuing, though he knew them to be frauds.

In fact, when he posted his course outline at the beginning of the quarter, all points were normal sentence case, except his bullet point entitled EVOLUTION. It seems this particular professor had a proselytizing agenda for evolution.

Answer 2

I had a fun exchange with a vehemently humanist psychology professor once. He made the statement that religion was a reaction to the fear of death, and that it developed merely to give us comfort about the concept of dying. I told him, that's great, but explain to me why we would then invent the concept of hell. He was shocked that I believed in hell. An invented afterlife is all fine and dandy if it involves heaven, but since the goal is to avoid pain and uncertainty, what would be the human motivation to invent the concept of hell as punishment for moral failure? Rewards are a nice invention; consequences, not so much.

Answer 3

Doesn't everyone?

The educational community and the scientific community... otherwise known as "the Oh-Great-Enlightened-Ones" have always been at odds with the religious community, in general, primarily because religion is a matter of faith and they are so limited as to only be capable of dealing in tangibles. What they fail to realize is that EVERY scientific discovery not accidentally happened upon, started out as a formulation of concept in the mind of an individual. Thus, it had no tangibility, and was accepted on FAITH that it simply was, and as yet, had to be proven. Who is to say that matters of religious faith are not the same... just as yet to be proven?

Hope this helps and makes you think...

Answer 4

yes i was given a failing grade on a final due to a disagreement with a sociology teacher over evolution....he claimed that because the pope said it was ok that evolution was true, i said i could care less what the pope said and evolution was garbage etc....i had a B going into the test...strangely enough i got EXACTLY The amount of points, 33 to fail the class and not get credit. Even if i had written the worst paper in my life it was better than a 33 or D-.....of course the university stuck by their piece of **** teacher and i was screwed out of money and time. no worries i know i was right and half the class came up to me after our argument said they agreed with me but not enough to support me and themselves lose the grade.

Answer 5

You find me one atheist who's burned one theist at the stake BECAUSE of their theism, and I won't find you to be incredibly pathetic by using the word "Inquisition" the way you just did.

Answer 6

I had a professor who I am 90% certain thought I was an alien hybrid. Does that count?

Said Professor:http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/DavidJacobs.htm

Answer 7

No, but I got my share of flack at the Christian college I went to.

Answer 8

Nope, can't say that I have.