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I also enjoyed this book. However, I find it strange you had that experience in a college level course. I took two terms of US history in college and the profes

I also enjoyed this book. However, I find it strange you had that experience in a college level course. I took two terms of US history in college and the professor had zero qualms about calling out discrepancies and shining a light on how history was/is written through certain cultural standards and lenses. Despite not really being a “history person”, they were some of my favorite courses because I felt like there was very little bullshit being presented as absolute truth.

MrLeap 8y ago
Different professors are different. The person who taught my college general education literature class used it as an opportunity to unapologetically proselytize the good word of Jesus Christ. 90% of every quiz question or essay prompt was relating every book back to Christianity. I found it offensive, but at this point in my college career the fight had been abraded out of me. I tried doing the assignments dispassionately, writing things like "Taking for granted that there is an omnipotent entity at the helm of the universe, I think the author contends that <rest of my answer>". I'd get my paper back with every secular apologism scribbled out in red, and comments on the margins that were like "JESUS LIVES" and other such academically cool business. Also he was giving me D's. This was a state school, not a religious one. Having fought 25% of my professors that ended up being lunatics no appetite remained in me to take this one to the tribunal. So, I salvaging my grade by feigning conversion. I started writing incomprehensibly unrelated answers to short essay questions. A question might read something like "In what way was Dostoevsky influenced by stoicism." I would answer "God is great!" My reward was A's. I no longer find anything within a normal distribution of human arch-types strange.

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I also enjoyed this book. However, I find it strange you had that experience in a college level course. I took two terms of US history in college and the profes

by finaliteration 8y ago

MrLeap 8y ago
Different professors are different. The person who taught my college general education literature class used it as an opportunity to unapologetically proselytize the good word of Jesus Christ. 90% of every quiz question or essay prompt was relating every book back to Christianity. I found it offensive, but at this point in my college career the fight had been abraded out of me. I tried doing the assignments dispassionately, writing things like "Taking for granted that there is an omnipotent entity at the helm of the universe, I think the author contends that <rest of my answer>". I'd get my paper back with every secular apologism scribbled out in red, and comments on the margins that were like "JESUS LIVES" and other such academically cool business. Also he was giving me D's. This was a state school, not a religious one. Having fought 25% of my professors that ended up being lunatics no appetite remained in me to take this one to the tribunal. So, I salvaging my grade by feigning conversion. I started writing incomprehensibly unrelated answers to short essay questions. A question might read something like "In what way was Dostoevsky influenced by stoicism." I would answer "God is great!" My reward was A's. I no longer find anything within a normal distribution of human arch-types strange.