An examination of Philosophy as taught in American Colleges and Universities

I conducted an experiment. I looked at a course description list for Philosophy at a major secular University. No surprise. There's hardly any attention given to the Christian philosophers in their list, like Hippo, Athanasius, Basil, Chrysostom, Cyril, but there are PLENTY on Buddhist, Japanese, Hindu thought, Marxist, Nietzche, ethics of war (anti-war you can bet) the world food shortage, sexual morality, philosophies of India, Brazilian and Latin American thought, etc. etc. The time given to Christian philosophies is minimal. Just examining their writings, nothing more. No in depth study as to their lives and what they learned from their practices from what I can see and to show how they might have a positive influence on the students. Not like these others. Nope, because that goes against their anti-God pro-socialism agenda they want to teach the kids.

So then I examined a philosophy syllabus from a well known Christian school and guess what? Whole semesters devoted to Nietzsche, Marx, all the Socratic writing, plus philosophy of art,law and of other religions. I didn't see the huge pro Bible and "ignorant" teachings that I have been led to believe are occuring on Christian college campuses. I didn't see this "proof" that Christian Univ grads must be intellectually deprived of something. There are biblical teachings given there, though, not trying to deny that. But how do you think that the majority of them would only push the pro right wing movement, that only Christian philosophers are the ones worth studying and matter? That's what the anti-God crowd wants you to think is happening. But it's not, America.

My point is that society wants people to think that Christians are stupid, with no common sense and logic. If they would just abandon their faith and use their logic, they would come to the "right conclusion," that there is no God. These Christians are taught logic and reason every day, yet they still believe. That must REALLY anger you anti God crowd.

Well let me reply to that. Do those Zen philosophy meditations you do on a retreat for college credit prove there isn't a God? Or do they just make you feel better for a couple of hours?