You couldn't make it up dept. no.31: But if they appointed a creationist as Director of Science...

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Boston College is supposedly a Catholic university.

It has recently appointed an atheist, member of a Universalist church, as its Director of Theology.

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[rfachir.livejournal.com]

It's a good school. Universalists are not all atheists.

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But they are none of them Catholic. Apparently this guy's first Theology lesson consisted in trashing the Trinity.

[rfachir.livejournal.com]

Do you expect a college, especially a Jesuit one, to endorse anyone who did not encourage students to question their assumptions? He's not there to preach - they have lots of priests around for that.

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Sorry, but that is nonsense. First, you have to know what Catholic theology is even before you question it. Second, a Catholic college is supposed to teach Catholicism. Appointing this guy at the HEAD of Theology studies trashes both goals. Boston College takes the money of Catholic parents for the purpose of forming Catholic youth, and then uses it for this. In any other kind of business, they could be had up for fraud.

As for the rest, do you have any idea how repetitious, how conventional, how unpenetrating, how samey, is your unquestioning acceptance of questioning authority as the goal of education? You are repeating the stalest and most restrictive of modern cliches, and you do not realize it.