Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search
21 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Santorum - Colleges Kill Religion, Indoctrinate Students (Original Post) L. Coyote Feb 2012 OP
Every time he opens his mouth, he's speaking to fewer and fewer people. Richardo Feb 2012 #1
Churches kill reason, and indoctrinate tiny children against thinking. Muskypundit Feb 2012 #2
What they fear about educated people... liberal N proud Feb 2012 #3
Santorum lays bare the reason for the Republican attacks on education! L. Coyote Feb 2012 #5
That's why they are all for starving public education - cilla4progress Feb 2012 #4
So logic, reason and critical thinking are left-wing ideologies? :) BattyDem Feb 2012 #6
In college, students discover... MarianJack Feb 2012 #7
I love it when abelenkpe Feb 2012 #8
Ding, ding, ding L. Coyote Feb 2012 #9
I don't remember a lot of indoctrination TlalocW Feb 2012 #10
I never really listened to Santorum all that much SaintPete Feb 2012 #11
The more clips I see from Santorum the more avebury Feb 2012 #12
is it possible that Rick Santorum is just doing the Stephen Colbert thing Douglas Carpenter Feb 2012 #13
The GOP depends on an uneducated base. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #14
It's thinking that kills religion, especially dogmatic religion. eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 #15
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum - Some Of Us Became Educated cantbeserious Feb 2012 #16
I'll go and notify the Jesuits... MisterP Feb 2012 #17
A person who really believes in their faith treestar Feb 2012 #18
Thank God longship Feb 2012 #19
Reason kills religion _ed_ Feb 2012 #20
Colleges Robert12LL Aug 2012 #21

liberal N proud

(60,298 posts)
3. What they fear about educated people...
Sat Feb 18, 2012, 10:40 PM
Feb 2012

Educated people are harder to "indoctrinate" to the ultra crazy conservative doctrine.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
5. Santorum lays bare the reason for the Republican attacks on education!
Sat Feb 18, 2012, 11:19 PM
Feb 2012

Education is a threat to ignorance

BattyDem

(11,075 posts)
6. So logic, reason and critical thinking are left-wing ideologies? :)
Sat Feb 18, 2012, 11:24 PM
Feb 2012

Not only is this idiot publicly encouraging ignorance, he's admitting that fundamentalist religion can't survive without it!

MarianJack

(10,237 posts)
7. In college, students discover...
Sat Feb 18, 2012, 11:34 PM
Feb 2012

...sex, beer and pot. Most will get an education, too.

Those are much more fun than kneeling down and saying "I'm sorry".

It isn't the colleges' fault that the vast majority of people intelligent enough to teach in college are liberals, or, at least moderates. It also isn't their faule that the vast majority of rightists are STUPID.

PEACE!

TlalocW

(15,358 posts)
10. I don't remember a lot of indoctrination
Sun Feb 19, 2012, 01:42 AM
Feb 2012

For the most part, I felt professors in both my majors and out just taught the curriculum. I do remember a biology teacher talking about how much he admired Rush Limbaugh. I just tuned him out. One of my majors was Spanish, and I was good friends with a conservative guy with the same major, and he tried to engage a professor in a discussion of Rush, and the professor smiled and politely shut down the line of conversation so he could get on with the lesson. Another major was math, and while there was some political talk in the department around election time, it never spilled over into the classroom.

I get the feeling that this is like the, "political persecution," they constantly suffer from but when properly translated it just means that they're not allowed to foist their opinions off on others whenever they want to. Indoctrination into liberalism just means that going to chapel twice a day is no longer part of a day of a student at a normal university.

TlalocW

SaintPete

(533 posts)
11. I never really listened to Santorum all that much
Sun Feb 19, 2012, 01:43 AM
Feb 2012

has he always been this much of a fucking loon, or has fame gone to his baby shaped head?

(that sounded weird...I don't think Santorum has a head that is shaped like a baby, rather he has a head that is shaped like a baby's head...)

avebury

(10,946 posts)
12. The more clips I see from Santorum the more
Sun Feb 19, 2012, 08:57 AM
Feb 2012

I realize that if there is an Anti-Christ it must be Santorum.

Douglas Carpenter

(20,226 posts)
13. is it possible that Rick Santorum is just doing the Stephen Colbert thing
Sun Feb 19, 2012, 09:02 AM
Feb 2012

and we're just too thick to get it?

eppur_se_muova

(36,227 posts)
15. It's thinking that kills religion, especially dogmatic religion.
Sun Feb 19, 2012, 01:46 PM
Feb 2012

Colleges don't have an active goal of deprogramming those raised with religious brainwashing; deprogamming most often emerges from the gradual accretion of an informed worldview. For many people, college is the only place that's likely to happen.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
18. A person who really believes in their faith
Sun Feb 19, 2012, 06:12 PM
Feb 2012

Will not be dissuaded by college professors. Why is he blaming the college for the person losing their faith? Or anyone else? That's on the person.

"Indoctrination." Use of that term shows that Santorum believes that other people's minds can be controlled. He just wants to be the one doing it.

_ed_

(1,734 posts)
20. Reason kills religion
Sun Feb 19, 2012, 09:44 PM
Feb 2012

Santorum is objecting to education because it makes one less prone to believing in childish god stories. Once you learn how to reason, it's impossible to believe in bronze age myths.

Latest Discussions»Retired Forums»Video & Multimedia»Santorum - Colleges Kill ...