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0 pointsgowld5y ago0 comments

Harvard, The most elite school in USA, has a church in the center of campus, an official preacher, and a whole Divinity School.

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barry-cotter5y ago

https://harvardmagazine.com/2007/07/faculty-faith.html

37% of professors at elite universities are atheist or agnostic. Saying Harvard is friendly to the religious because it has a divinity school is like saying Stanford is a hotbed of the rightwing because of the Hoover Institution, except that you would expect a lot of atheists and agnostics at Harvard’s divinity school and no Marxists at Hoover.

lowdose5y ago

Could both the Hoover institution and the divinity school be a signal that there are no communists on campus?

I sometimes wonder if the US is less secular than Europe because atheists were for a long time associated with communists. Church going people obviously couldn't be communists.

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barry-cotter5y ago

https://harvardmagazine.com/2007/07/faculty-faith.html

lowdose5y ago

Could both the Hoover institution and the divinity school be a signal that there are no communists on campus?

I sometimes wonder if the US is less secular than Europe because atheists were for a long time associated with communists. Church going people obviously couldn't be communists.

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