The College Fix, a conservative web site devoted to higher education news, has published a report that will surely capture the faithful’s attention. According to the outlet’s recent survey of religious education classes across America, colleges and universities show “an outright disregard and disdain for Jesus Christ.”
In total, 316 courses at 12 universities were examined. Analysis shows what The College Fix claims is evidence that U.S. professors regularly snub Jesus and gloss over his messaging. Rather than focusing on Christ, the web site contends that educators focus on offering electives that tackle “more obscure matters.” Here’s how an article introducing the report frames these issues:
The survey looked at class titles and descriptions categorized either directly under religious studies, or courses heavy with religious topics but filed under departments such as history, the humanities, political science or philosophy. [...]Some of the electives are too difficult to even classify, such as: emergence, from biology to religion; suffering and transformation; anthropology of body and pain; religious dimensions in human experience; sport and spirituality; and a history of apocalyptic thought and movements.
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