17 November 2008

Religion at ASU

Two of my professors (English and Human Event) are ex-Mormon. One of them is now a vague theist; the other probably a secular humanist. My physics professor is at the very least a former Catholic. My econ professor is most likely irreligious or Russian Orthodox. My choir teachers are generic Protestants. And I'm pretty sure my Institute teacher is Mormon.

The most prominent faction in my Human Event class is apatheist (a blend of apathetic and theist—they just don't care), with disaffected Catholic close behind. I am one of two LDS persons in that class. We have one Muslim, who is very emphatic about what Islam is and is not. There are also a few apathetic Christians—one was surprised to find anything controversial in the Bible. (You know, stuff like marriage, divorce, and women.)

In my English class, we have again the apatheists, but also an evangelical atheist. (He's annoying.) Then we have a few traditional Protestants, and me. Ironically, our poststructuralist philosopher also apparently attends church services.

Who knows about any of my other classes? We have no inter-student interaction. Don't be ridiculous.

4 comments:

  1. Our physics professor is catholic? By the sounds of it he sounded Lutheren to me.

    HOW THE HECK can you tell????

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  2. And he talked about how he was taught how the Catholic church reconciled science and religion.

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  3. He did? Wow I must've been zoned out.

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