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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Conservative evangelicals are ruining the schools. Georgetown seems to have found the sweet spot. [/quote]

?? Mine looked at Georgetown and Notre Dame, far preferred Notre Dame and is thriving there. [/quote]

You’re not Catholic, obviously.  “Evangelicals” is a Protestant thing.

The biggest complaint by conservative ND alums is that the school has become too liberal and is betraying Catholic values.   [/quote]

What do you call religious extremists who are trying to force their religious beliefs on you?

“Evangelical” sounds appropriate. [/quote]

You are angry at a handful of politicians and judges who happen to be Catholic (or used to be in the case of Gorsuch and Barrett -- her organization is primarily Protestant), conveniently ignoring the fact that many Catholic politicians and judges, including two on the Supreme Court and the President, hold the same political view that you do. You are incorrectly painting an entire religion and any school associated with that religion, with a single political brush. That is bigotry. [/quote]

We are discussing ND. The SCOTUS justice from ND is a religious extremist. 
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So what? She is one person and not even remotely representative of everyone at the school. You can't be that ignorant? And lots of ND law professors wrote a letter not supporting her. You will find differences of opinion at ND and other colleges. If you write off an entire school because of the voice of one or even a handful of its people, you will be writing off every decent school, and giving up on the opportunity to hear all kinds of opinions, which only makes you smarter and better able to hone your own.[/quote]

Not to mention that Kavanaugh, Thomas and Alito all went to Yale, yet no one is painting the entirety of Yale University with their brush.

Bigotry plain and simple. [/quote]

Isn’t this a thread about Notre Dame?

I don’t understand the narrow minded view about religion classes. Any form of religion has never been my thing. I had to obtain four humanities credits to graduate. As a really poor kid I waltzed into an English lit class and observed the prep school kids had already read the books. I raced over to my adviser and drop add and  he suggested religion classes (the school had one of the best divinity schools). I thought he was crazy but he convinced me I could engage in critical analysis without theological hang-ups. I saw classmates struggle with reconciling exploring tensions in and between documents and their theology. Not so with me, and it was a great experience. Still in no way religious. I did put emphasis on being respectful but never bought into the religious game. Don’t take this as me being some kind of master of toleration- I was recruited as a non Mormon athlete at BYU (my sport has long been their best sport) and properly and immediately thought it was nuts, but the study of religion was fascinating (as opposed to theology) and a single course requirement shouldn’t be that big of a deal. [/quote]

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