The Left Uses College For “Indoctrination” – Rick Santorum
Mr. Santorum tries to break the irony meter.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Wednesday that “the left” uses universities to indoctrinate young people for the purpose of “holding and maintaining power.”
After saying “we’ve lost, unfortunately, our entertainment industry,” Santorum told a Naples, Florida, audience that “we’ve lost our higher education, that was the first to go a long time ago.”
I guess one of his first acts as president would be to close down college.
“It’s no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go to college,” said the former Pennsylvania senator. “The indoctrination that occurs in American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America. And it is indoctrination.
WOW! I’m pretty sure he does not know what the word actually means. The exposure to many new ideas in not indoctrination. Exposure to one set of idea that can’t be tested or verified (like church) is indoctrination.
If it was the other way around, the ACLU would be out there making sure that there wasn’t one penny of government dollars going to colleges and universities, right?”
There are crazy fundie far right universities – and the ACLU does not sue them.
He continued: “If they taught Judeo-Christian principles in those colleges and universities, they would be stripped of every dollar.
Nope! There are schools that do that. You get a shitty education but you can become a minister.
Because you know 62 percent of children who enter college with a faith conviction leave without it.”
Yeah! Where does that number come from? What is causing that? Reality? or simply being away from oppressive parents?
Santorum went on to encourage his audience not to “give money” to colleges and universities that he said are causing harm to the country.
He hates college!
“I’ll bet you there are people in this room who give money to colleges and universities who are undermining the very principles of our country every single day by indoctrinating kids with left-wing ideology,” he said. “And you continue to give to these colleges and universities. Let me have a suggestion: Stop it.”
I say if you are giving money to a church you should stop! They are undermining the very principles of our country every single day by indoctrinating kids.
“Because you know 62 percent of children who enter college with a faith conviction leave without it.” –Santorum
That number is probably a product of his ass, but there is no doubt that education lowers faith belief, as it should. That’s why Jehovah’s Witnesses strongly discourage a college education. When they come back from it, they aren’t JW’s anymore. As Schopenauer put it:
“…faith and knowledge are related as the two scales of a balance; when the one goes up, the other goes down.” –Arthur Schopenauer
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“Changes in the educational levels of the general population in recent years appear to account for much of the variance in biblical beliefs over time. The current proportion of biblical literalists is 32%, only half of what it was in 1963, when 65% of Americans said they believed in the absolute truth of all words in the Bible and that it represented the actual word of God. Belief in inerrancy is most likely to be found among people who did not complete high school (58%), and least likely among college graduates (29%).”
–From One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society (1993) Barry A. Kosmin & Seymour P. Lachman. pg. 268. Harmony Books, ISBN 0-517-58789-0 (A survey of 113,000 Americans).
Somebody explain to me why the asylum he escaped from is not actively trying to get him back in his comfy cushioned room?
Some might find this article interesting and relevant to this kind of stupidity (Santorum):
http://news.yahoo.com/low-iq-conservative-beliefs-linked-prejudice-180403506.html