Idolatry 101?
Professors at Indiana's Butler University are reported to mock Christianity regularly and with impugnity. But Butler students are required to take a course which demands that they purchase a copy of the Koran and treat it with ritual respect as the word of god (including always carrying and stacking it on top of all other books).
Nothing wrong, of course, with teaching students to be sensitive to the beliefs of others. But somehow neither Butler nor its faculty feels obligated to lead by example, and that strikes me as rather problematic.
Since prayer is one of the pillars of Islam, which the course requires students to practice in class, one wonders whether it must be to Allah. Unfortunately, of course, there would be nothing new about Christian students being forced to pray to the Muslim god by their teachers as an exercise in a "tolerance" the teachers and the institutions where they teach do not feel obligated to extend to Christianity.
Nothing wrong, of course, with teaching students to be sensitive to the beliefs of others. But somehow neither Butler nor its faculty feels obligated to lead by example, and that strikes me as rather problematic.
Since prayer is one of the pillars of Islam, which the course requires students to practice in class, one wonders whether it must be to Allah. Unfortunately, of course, there would be nothing new about Christian students being forced to pray to the Muslim god by their teachers as an exercise in a "tolerance" the teachers and the institutions where they teach do not feel obligated to extend to Christianity.
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