Spart, to answer your question another way: In the course of my doing a philosophy degree at a secular university I do not remember (and I am sure I would if they had) a single instance of any lecturer or university staff member making any value judgement or comment that was positive or negative in nature about "religion" or "Christianity", and that included in a course specifically titled 'philosophy of religion'. At no point was I ever aware of the religious views of any lecturer or university staff member or knew whether they were religious or not.
In fact, in the course of a decade spent at secular universities, I can only recall a single time in which a university staff member gave an opinion on the topic of religion. It was in a small group meeting of half a dozen or so of us who were science researchers who knew each other fairly well and it was casual discussion, and I don't recall how the topic came up but a science professor made the comment that he was not religious and did not understand how anyone who was a scientist could be religious... he then apologized to the room in case he had offended anyone and asked if anyone was religious so he could apologize to them, everyone said they weren't religious, and he seemed to think that supported his general view. Despite being an atheist myself, his comments made me very uncomfortable because they were socially inappropriate.
So the way evangelicals on TWeb like to imagine secular universities as being some sort of bastions of anti-Christian indoctrination and hatred just makes me laugh. Sure, well-educated people might tend to not be religious, and gaining a scientific mindset might lead one to question religious claims, so the average university science department might happen to be disproportionately full of atheists as compared to the general population. But secular universities don't activity teach against religion. To think that is just absurd.
In fact, in the course of a decade spent at secular universities, I can only recall a single time in which a university staff member gave an opinion on the topic of religion. It was in a small group meeting of half a dozen or so of us who were science researchers who knew each other fairly well and it was casual discussion, and I don't recall how the topic came up but a science professor made the comment that he was not religious and did not understand how anyone who was a scientist could be religious... he then apologized to the room in case he had offended anyone and asked if anyone was religious so he could apologize to them, everyone said they weren't religious, and he seemed to think that supported his general view. Despite being an atheist myself, his comments made me very uncomfortable because they were socially inappropriate.
So the way evangelicals on TWeb like to imagine secular universities as being some sort of bastions of anti-Christian indoctrination and hatred just makes me laugh. Sure, well-educated people might tend to not be religious, and gaining a scientific mindset might lead one to question religious claims, so the average university science department might happen to be disproportionately full of atheists as compared to the general population. But secular universities don't activity teach against religion. To think that is just absurd.
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