<p>Not to be all PC, but there are lots of Mormons, Catholics, Jews and others who would probably like to discuss institutions of their religion. How come the Christians get their own forum?</p>
<p>Because there are lots and lots of questions on the boards about Christian colleges, and few about the others. That's how you determine whether a subforum is needed. That's why there's a subform on Harvard on the main menu, and not one for Anytown College.</p>
<p>Great idea for a forum, we want to be sure that the Christians don't get exposed to other ideas. Keep 'em nice and safe inside their little bubble!</p>
<p>Posts beating up on Christians really belong in one of the Cafes.</p>
<p>Mormons and Catholics are Christians, just fyi. Anyways, I completely agree with the OP. Would somebody like to explain the harm of including all religions? Obviously, it would be Christian dominated, but then at least OTHER religions would have a chance as well. </p>
<p>Plus, this will probably be a breeding ground for anti-Christian remarks.</p>
<p>How many times does it have to be explained that the College Search and Selection forum gets many, many questions about Christian colleges, while it gets very few about other religiously affiliated schools? I've seen many of those discussions, and they always follow the same pattern. The OP states that he's interested in a Christian college, and almost invariably what he means is an evangelical Protestant college, like Wheaton. Almost invariably, he gets a bunch of posts telling him about Notre Dame, and telling him not to go to a Christian college at all, etc. What he's looking for is somebody to tell him whether Cedarville is better than Messiah, and which school has a church music major, etc. If those threads could all go here, there would be less confusion. There probably needs to be a sticky post at the top defining terms, though.</p>
<p>While that may be, Hunt, what would be the harm in including other religions in the forum title, so that this doesn't become an exclusively Christian forum? It seems that as a public forum CC does have some sort of obligation (not legal, of course) to provide a place for discussion of all religious colleges?</p>
<p>It does provide it. You can discuss any religious college you want in the general College Selection forum, just as you can discuss any other topic that doesn't get enough mentions to justify a subforum. The harm is that it would convert a forum with a simple purpose--allowing people interested in an identifiable subgroup of colleges to discuss them--into a forum that would, I predict, be plagued with pointless discussions about religion in general.</p>
<p>There are no other religious universities in America. There is no point in being PC if the colleges do not exist. I mean the closest to a Jewish college is Brandeis from what I know. This seems ridiculous there is no reason it should be denoted as religious if the only religious colleges are Christian. Or at the very least the vast majority with a religious affliation are Christian.</p>
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<p>Umm, if you are not a) Christian or b) interested in a Christian college then why would you want to be here???
Oh and our bubble is the world we're everywhere baby ;)!</p>
<p>^There are religious colleges that aren't Christian; one example is Yeshiva University. </p>
<p>Oh and our bubble is the world we're everywhere baby!</p>
<p>More like less than 1/3 of the world...</p>
<p>The goyim should be allowed to play among themselves quietly as long as they don't disturb anyone else, which on second thought, as demonstrated here and else where, seems impossible.</p>
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<p>I really hope that was a joke or something, and that you are not truly that ignorant. There are plenty of colleges which are religious and not Christian.</p>
<p>romani, suggest a Jewish, Religious, whatever subforum to the mods.</p>
<p>Alternatively, why don't you post ALL of the threads in the last month expressly inquiring about universities and colleges that have a religious affiliation OTHER than a Christian religion, and actually support your claim that there is a need or desire for a subforum for different religions?</p>
<p>I frequent the CS&S board every day, and I have never seen any thread other than a Christian one inn terms of religious affiliation (at least, I can't remember any...).</p>
<p>There was a need, and there was a request. You can request this forum be changed to "Religiously Affiliated" colleges if you want. That might be more productive than ranting about it here.</p>
<p>Plus, we would need separate subforums. There are "experts" on Christian colleges, so having a forum devoted to Christian colleges makes perfect sense. If it were open to all religions, the people seeking colleges with religious affiliations other than Christian might even receive fewer responses, because the people seeking religious colleges are so overwhelmingly Christian.</p>
<p>Dbate: </p>
<p>Jewish</a> Colleges and Universities in the Yahoo! Directory</p>
<p>Islamic</a> Colleges and Universities in the Yahoo! Directory</p>
<p>Though tsdad does have a point--maybe it would be nice to isolate them all here.
Haha, okay, I changed my mind.</p>
<p>Since when are Catholics and Mormons not Christians?</p>
<p>Baelor, is that not what we are doing? We are suggesting that there be no distinction or preferential treatment going to merely Christian Colleges over other religiously affiliated colleges.</p>
<p>I personally think of Christians as Protestants, Catholics as separate (though they do fall under the umbrella of Christianity, I guess) in terms of ideology, and Mormons as a cult.</p>
<p>tsdad: again, you are the source of much amusement for me on CC...thanks for putting a smile on my face....</p>
<p>Isn't there a Christian Science college somewhere (Ohio?)? Does that fit here too?</p>
<p>"Baelor, is that not what we are doing? We are suggesting that there be no distinction or preferential treatment going to merely Christian Colleges over other religiously affiliated colleges."</p>
<p>I'm sorry, I didn't see an explicit request somewhere to a mod. Perhaps I am mistaken.</p>
<p>There is no "preference" for Christian colleges. Again, you think that the presence of the forum is somehow discriminatory. Were there requests for religious college forums before? IIRC, it was explicitly for Christian colleges. Why then is it inherently exclusive? Has anyone tried to get a religiously affiliated college forum up before? Were they denied the request? Has anyone asked for a Jewish subforum?</p>
<p>Plus, I still think the volume of posts is relevant to the existence of a subforum. There are a decent number of Christian college threads. You haven't shown that there are a comparable or even significant number of Jewish, Buddhist, Mormon, Muslim, whatever college threads to justify the creation of another subforum.</p>
<p>In addition, I don't see what the benefit of making this forum applicable to all religious schools would be. Those seeking non-Christian but religious colleges would probably get lost in the number of threads discussing Christian colleges, because the latter are so predominant. They would likely get more responses in the general section anyway. Plus, it would make this subforum disorganized. There are enough requests about Christian colleges to justify the existence of this subforum. I think adding all religions to this specific forum would just add to the disorganization.</p>
<p>However, I wouldn't mind having another subforum that applies to all other religions. It probably will be inactive enough that it will be easy to spot Jewish college threads, Buddhist college threads, etc.</p>
<p>"I personally think of Christians as Protestants, Catholics as separate (though they do fall under the umbrella of Christianity, I guess) in terms of ideology, and Mormons as a cult."</p>
<p>Catholics are definitely Christians. Mormons are arguably so. I haven't heard of Catholics ever being considered non-Christian.</p>