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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Notre Dame has had a long history of having all four military branches on campus.  We have ROTC for Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines.  I believe I have heard it said that we also have one of the highest, if not the highest, percentages of students doing ROTC.

Why?  I am not entirely sure, but I think it may have something to do with what Princeton Army ROTC grad said up above:

many families from middle or UMC families
high tuition
from families with a tradition of military service
from families trying to send a lot of children to college

I think the Catholic angle, patriotism angle helped too.  Above the doors to Sacred Heart, the basilica on campus, it says, "God, Country, and Notre Dame," the message being that we are here on Earth to serve all three, in this order.

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[b]Norte dame is a crazy Christian school. The military has a huge religious bent to it - it doesn't take much reasoning to see why there's a bit overlap.
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After college, I looked at Ocs. I was turned off when I was asked what my religion was by a recruiter.

I was never asked this at CIA. The military, within the natsec sphere, is poisoned with Christian fundy typeS. [/quote]

You seem misinformed.  Notre Dame is a Catholic school and while there are many religious kids there and certainly a Catholic ethos to the school there are plenty of colleges that are much more religious or Christian-leaning.

And although Catholic was the first Christian religion, the faith is certainly not Christian in the unquestioning, too-often Bible-spouting, "my way or the highway" judgmental way that people think of when they think of "Christian" in the U.S.   So nice try, but you're wrong here.[/quote]

Norte dame is the most religiously fundementalist school in the top 35.

Remember the whole brouhaha over O coming to speak there.

It is filled with crazies. It's telling your response to support its secularity is to compare it to Liberty or a school like that[/quote]

PP, you're the crazy one.  NP here who is agnostic and graduated from ND.  I loved every minute of it and never felt like anyone was out to proselytize me.  In fact, my openness about my lack of religious upbringing and my doubts about any form of God was seen as a positive thing in some cases.  It could never be compared to Liberty or Bob Jones U.  On the other hand, it's not quiet about it's religion either.  It's a wonderful place and the huge ROTC population really benefits the undergrad population overall. [/quote]

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