What were you thinking? Go to a Catholic college and then whine like a little baby that you have to read its sacred text called the Bible? What were you thinking? You KNEW it was a Catholic school when you applied.
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You KNEW that the Bible would be active in its curriculum. Or, you are stupider than what this College Fix post says you are (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Catholic university students complain about having to read the Bible
Honor students at a Catholic university recently complained during a townhall Zoom meeting about the incorporation of the Bible into the curricula. Loyola University Chicago’s Honors BIPOC Coalition, which has asked the university to increase the diversity of the honors program curricula, held a discussion on Wednesday, March 24. A number of students criticized how much the Catholic university makes them read the Bible.
“I personally did not like reading the Bible whatsoever, in any capacity,” Himani Soni, a Loyola student, said during the online meeting.
“I absolutely hated it,” Soni said, even though she said the other texts that were read in the honors’ program classes related to the Bible. “As someone that has not grown up in a Christian household, even though we’re told to read it as a text to reflect the historical value of the reading, and not just in a religious context, it’s extremely unfamiliar to me,” Soni said. She then criticized the use of it and said that Christian students at the Catholic institution had an “unfair advantage” because they have had “years of experience talking about the concepts.”
“For me personally, I had such a hard time reading the Bible, and it was not an experience I would ever have again, considering how it was taught. I had to put in maybe ten times more effort than peers had to to understand the basics of the text” to understand similes and metaphors and other symbols in the text. Other students had to “let her know” what things in the Bible meant.
Sorry, I have no sympathy for you. Again, you KNEW it was a Catholic school – what did you think you was going to be a major text – the Kama Sutra? The Torah? Insert <name another religion? here?>
Sorry, but if “Diversity” is your desire, trying to force an institution whose religious fundamentals are two thousand years old just to suit YOU with today’s subjective (and malleable by the minute) morality, of COURSE you are going to “hate” it.
No, the Catholic Church isn’t going to change its theology just for you. Nor should it. Look what has happened to the Mainline Protestant denominations that have cast off Biblical principles and gone “with the world” (e.g., Woke)? Their numbers are plummeting and fast.
And no thankfulness to those “other students” that were willing to help her out?
And I don’t understand this:
Clarke had agreed several minutes earlier with a Jewish student named Katherine O’Neill who also said she did not like having to read the Bible, including Genesis.
“I know that [the] Western traditions [course] probably isn’t going to go away, and I do see value in some of the materials we learn in the class,” O’Neill said. “But when we’re reading philosophers and texts that do have problematic language and content” about minorities or women, “it’s important to recognize that.”
“Also, recognizing different perspectives and interpretation,” is important, O’Neill said. “The reading of Genesis is done from a very Christian perspective.” She said she does not like the term “Judeo-Christian” because “Judaism is very distinct from Christianity.”
Genesis – part of the old Testament. Genesis tells the Beginning of God and His creation, the beginning of His walk with His creation: Man.
And also the start (genesis, get it?) of the Hebrew nation – God’s people. And this latter day Hebrew thinks that reading about that start was icky?
Yes, the interpretations can vary and yes, the Jewish view of it will vary from the Christian one. But both contain major philosophicals views (save the major one that the Jews are still waiting for their Messiah while Christians believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah promised in the Old Testament, the Son of God.
But what did O’Neill think? She ALSO decided to go to a Catholic school.
Yep, buyer’s remorse coupled with “I didn’t do my homework”. Both are complaining that a religious faith-based school is…religious?
Victimology has also become a religious theology and they seem to know its sacred text really well.
