At a recent Penn State football game, a player from the Penn State team arrives on the field, kneels down, and says a prayer for a good twenty seconds or so. Disrespectfully enough, the mascot from the opposing team straight up mocks him. Goldy Gopher, from the University of Minnesota, has been reprimanded for his [...]
Since you read about a week back from Activismology about Kirk Cameron, he has been continuing his ‘crusade’ to spread a blind form of Christianity to the American public. Let it be known that I indeed did dabble in Atheism for quite some time and have since found a more balanced view of the world. [...]
For years Islamic countries have ranged from fairly to strictly conservative when it comes to gender issues. In most places you can’t even walk the street as a woman without a male escort. This is a fairly easy way to keep a patriarchal society running consistently by men. If women have very few rights, they’re [...]
As a man with a Literature degree, I take serious offense to what has happened recently at Brigham Young University is Utah. The art department over there was supposed to put on a Euripides play entitled Bakkhai. Yes, the play is a bit racy and does include some gruesome scenes that involve the heads of [...]
Blogging is an integral part of many people’s lives (especially mine). If you’re a college student, chances are you have blogged, do blog, or will blog in the future. The way society is heading, we’ll probably all have a blog or two at some point in our lives if we don’t have one already. It’s [...]
The Daily Texan reports a story that explains why religion and a college education surrounding the sciences can be counterproductive. A study conducted by University of Michigan: Ann Arbor concludes that the amount of education one receives has a direct correlation to how much faith one has. This is no rinky-dink study, either. These researchers have [...]
Christianity Today writes an article about a Baptist College and how it deals with its Muslim and Jewish student population. You wouldn’t imagine that these students would be terribly welcome or even want to attending an unambiguously Christian institution, but they do. What this shows is how well religion has grown in the past hundred [...]
For the first time ever, Princeton University has brought onto its team a Muslim Chaplain, Sohaib Sultan. Kudos, Princeton, keep it up!
So…this KINDA doesn’t surprise me.
According to MSNBC, “Unwed pregnant teens and 20-somethings who attend or have graduated from private religious schools are more likely to obtain abortions than their peers from public schools, according to research in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
‘This research suggests that young, unmarried women are [...]
