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daswig,
Did you ever wonder that maybe, just maybe, the study of the history of humanity and religion and politics has in fact MADE social science professors liberal? Once you've had the priviledge of studying the Bible from a historical perspective you learn all kinds of wonderful things like: a) the Flood never even happened (or at least the thousands of people it supposedly drowned have no idea it ever happened), b) the tower of Babel never existed, c) the shepherds, the magi, and the manger were never in the same place (a bastardisation of the gospels), and d) organized religion has killed more people in the name of god than anything in the history of the world.
Things like that make you cynical, and make you question the government; make you think that "Hey! People have been screwing people over in the name of god for thousands of years, maybe I shouldn't buy into whatever new propaganda they are spewing!"
If questioning authority, be it religious or political; and causing you to challenge your own beliefs and actually THINK for one fucking second is liberal "crap"...then I guess I'm up to my eyeballs in the brown stuff.
Just because you have to learn about a certain belief, like Marxism, doesn't mean that a professor is a communist. Just because you actually have to learn about evolution doesn't make your biology teacher a godless liberal. And just because your professor makes you a bit uncomfortable by saying, "Guess what people? No WMDs!" does NOT give you the right to silence him.
Might I also ask daswig what you do in the "real world" that is just so goddamn amazing?
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the·o·ry - a working hypothesis that is considered probable based on experimental evidence or factual or conceptual analysis and is accepted as a basis for experimentation.
faith - Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.
- Merriam-Webster's dictionary
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