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> They are all Christians. Is it atypical for a Christian college to be attended by Christians? I toured their campus years ago with a friend that was looking

by troupe 4y ago

> They are all Christians. Is it atypical for a Christian college to be attended by Christians? I toured their campus years ago with a friend that was looking at attending the school. I'm not sure why you would go there if you weren't a Christian.

yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
I can't comment on what's "typical", but I have known people who went to a Christian college while being atheist themselves, purely on the basis of it having a good program for the degree they wanted.
- troupe 4y ago
  That's fair, but if someone chooses to go to an Islamic university, listing the fact that "everyone" there is a Muslim as a negative seems weird.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
    Oh sure, I'd expect that most people going there align with the college's beliefs. I'm just pointing out that it's not 100% and that there are non-Christians going to Christian colleges.
    - troupe 4y ago
      Agreed, but the comment I was responding to seemed to be surprised, concerned, or at least saw it as a negative that a Christian college was populated by Christians.
throwawaygh 4y ago
The vast majority of Christian Church-affiliated colleges in the USA are either catholic (Jesuit in particular) or Mainline. In both of those cases, the denominational ties do not preclude attendance at the college/university by non-Christians, LGBT, etc. Either in policy or in practice. If a university is Catholic or Mainline, it's pretty safe to assume that the college is open to all and that a huge % of students attending the school are not from that denomination (or particularly theistic). Places like Wheaton (Chicago), Cedarville, Liberty, CofO, etc. are very much the outliers in terms of how church-affiliated higher ed institutions behave toward non-fundamentalist-conservative-Christians. BTW, being Christian is not enough at CofO. The important thing is to be socially conservative and fit in with the fundy crowd. Mainline lutherans, for example, definitely aren't welcome. The national-ethnic-religious-political belief complex that is de facto required to get by at CofO is probably not even recognizable as Christianity to a European Christian eye. Anyways, with respect to CofO, the bigotry is really not even relevant. Compare the CS faculty at Truman/Rolla/etc. vs CofO. The work study program is a $20/hr job for 15 hours a week. You can get up to $15/hr easy and your improved internship placements out of Truman/Rolla will put you ahead of CofO even before graduation. Ten years down the road there's probably close to an entire 0 in outcome differences.

by troupe 4y ago

yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago

I can't comment on what's "typical", but I have known people who went to a Christian college while being atheist themselves, purely on the basis of it having a good program for the degree they wanted.

troupe 4y ago
That's fair, but if someone chooses to go to an Islamic university, listing the fact that "everyone" there is a Muslim as a negative seems weird.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  Oh sure, I'd expect that most people going there align with the college's beliefs. I'm just pointing out that it's not 100% and that there are non-Christians going to Christian colleges.
  - troupe 4y ago
    Agreed, but the comment I was responding to seemed to be surprised, concerned, or at least saw it as a negative that a Christian college was populated by Christians.

throwawaygh 4y ago

The vast majority of Christian Church-affiliated colleges in the USA are either catholic (Jesuit in particular) or Mainline. In both of those cases, the denominational ties do not preclude attendance at the college/university by non-Christians, LGBT, etc. Either in policy or in practice. If a university is Catholic or Mainline, it's pretty safe to assume that the college is open to all and that a huge % of students attending the school are not from that denomination (or particularly theistic). Places like Wheaton (Chicago), Cedarville, Liberty, CofO, etc. are very much the outliers in terms of how church-affiliated higher ed institutions behave toward non-fundamentalist-conservative-Christians. BTW, being Christian is not enough at CofO. The important thing is to be socially conservative and fit in with the fundy crowd. Mainline lutherans, for example, definitely aren't welcome. The national-ethnic-religious-political belief complex that is de facto required to get by at CofO is probably not even recognizable as Christianity to a European Christian eye. Anyways, with respect to CofO, the bigotry is really not even relevant. Compare the CS faculty at Truman/Rolla/etc. vs CofO. The work study program is a $20/hr job for 15 hours a week. You can get up to $15/hr easy and your improved internship placements out of Truman/Rolla will put you ahead of CofO even before graduation. Ten years down the road there's probably close to an entire 0 in outcome differences.