Santorum's College And Faith Loss Remarks

[Klaatu]

Santorum's College And Faith Loss Remarks Challenged By Experts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/27/santorum-college-faith-challenge_n_1305273.html


"Santorum told talk show host Glenn Beck on Thursday (Feb. 23) that "62 percent of kids who go into college with a faith commitment leave without it." He also has called President Obama a "snob" for wanting more Americans to attend college."If going to college makes people "lose their faith," then absolutely everyone should go to college... only then can we finally break the powerful grip of BIG RELIGION on the masses

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Santorum is just an idiot.


If going to college makes people "lose their faith," then absolutely everyone should go to college... only then can we finally break the powerful grip of BIG RELIGION on the masses
And that was the idea that the Soviets and Eastern European communists, particularly Comrade Hoxhaaaaaaaaaaa :lol:, had. Educate the people on the merits of science and materialism and they will abandon their faith. It sort of worked.

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

Santorum is just an idiot.


And that was the idea that the Soviets and Eastern European communists, particularly Comrade Hoxhaaaaaaaaaaa :lol:, had. Educate the people on the merits of science and materialism and they will abandon their faith. It sort of worked.

Yeah that's why there are Muslim and Christian religious fanatics in the former USSR, People's Republic of Poland and Yugoslavia :rolleyes:.

People aren't religious because they don't know math or science, they are religious because their lives feature suffering which drives people to question existential things. Our Materialist friend Marx pointed out that it functions as an opiate for those of the lower classes as much of the suffering is driven by the misery of the material world and class society. It's a much more likely explanation than the lack of scientific or mathematical knowledge (especially since some of the smartest scientists and mathematicians in history were, and are, in fact, religious people)


Santorum isn't only saying this because college broadens people's horizons and thus leads to them abandoning their old faiths, he's also saying it because our modern economy does not value college educated workers and it is deemed a waste of resources by Capitalists to have everyone educated. Santorum dresses it up in religious language, but at its core there is a desire to reduce the % of GDP spent on education to the lowest level possible while still producing "efficient workers". Even some Democrats are moving in the direction of gutting public education (as a silver lining, it will help to further differentiate leftists in a practical sense among the populace, as the Democrats start to give up ground on America's already-skeletal welfare state).

[Klaatu]

We've always heard of "Big Business." And now we hear of something that is called "Big Government."
This is by the same people that are trying to stuff "Big Religion" down our throats. :glare:

[Enragé]

...or 'big society' in the uk :P

[moulinrouge]

To be fair college education is a bubble and an institution of capitalist conditioning. Americans had more class consioussnes when only a few people went to college.