Comments on: Religion vs. Learning

By: Alan Mitchell

Alan Mitchell — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:28:41 +0000

Let’s not forget Reed’s reputation as a drug fest. Even at Lewis & Clark (Portland’s other major private liberal arts school), where pot was more popular than Jesus, we knew that Reed was the druggie campus in town. We’re talking mountains of coke, forests of pot, and (metaphor for sizeable amounts here) of shrooms.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 07:36:55 +0000

I think this survey just measured how self-satisfied Reed students are. Very.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:47:56 +0000

I would like every practicing christian to partake of a little test that should put their religion christianity in perspective. Over the next year I want you to look in the eyes and watch the manerisms of every priest, minister and religious proponent as they spew their religion. Look at their spouses and study them. Look at their kids. Listen to the message coming from their mouths. Turn on TBN and watch Paul and Jan Crouch, Bennie Hinn and the other preachers.
Would you want to be like them. Would you be comfortable in their shoes. Could they fit comfortably into your circle of friends.
If you have any sense of objectivity or half a brain you have got to come to the conclusion that these people are stark raving mad. These people are nuts and the sheep that follow them are equally nuts. What is wrong with America that so many people can buy into this BULLSHIT.
America has become the laughing stock of the civilized world. When are we going to cast aside all the superstition and fear associated with organized religion. When are we going to stop practicing religion and start practicing our humanity.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 04:38:10 +0000

Quite intresting article posting.I enjoyed reading this. Paul

By: Becky

Becky — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:42:56 +0000

The more a particular religion leans toward fundamentalism, the less tolerant it is of independent thinking, even actively discouraging it. Hence the persistent belief in the Adan and Eve myth. The perfect male student at ORU and Bob Jones University lets someone else do his thinking for him. The perfect female student is graciously submissive. That’s how you prove what a good Christian you are.

By: Kryten Syxx

Kryten Syxx — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:42:54 +0000

From what I have gathered by my own experiences and stories told to me by people who attended college in very Christian areas that real academics are shoved aside to make way for learning more about the bible.

By: Clint

Clint — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:14:04 +0000

When I visited Reed as a potential student in 2000, the college bookstore had a sweat shirt for sale with an authentic looking college seal, circled by the words “Atheism, Communism, Free Love”

I just checked, and according to Wikipedia, its an “unoffical motto.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_College