Re: From the list custodian

[JMHACLJ]

In a message dated 9/6/2005 3:41:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My point was a serious one about how one organizes a course, and reminder that when people teach a course to argue for a viewpoint and to ignore other information it undermines academic integrity.  The fact is this:  a "History of the Influence of Christianity in American history" taught in a fundamentalist Christian school would not likely teach many of the topics I suggested; most American history coursres would teach a number of them, as well as teach about Puritans, the two great awakenings, the role of religious people in the antislavery movement and the civil rights movement. If Rick wants to play the list game, I think it only fair to explore the issue. I wonder.   Several Christian denominations, for example, have engaged in close self-examination and repentance for their role in some of the things listed; justification of slavery, oppression of First Peoples, etc.  Paul, did you derive your course topics from experience with Christian schools, or from your expectations of what you would find?  Rick, it seems to me, wasn't playing a "list game," although he can speak for himself on this point; I took his listing of approved courses as a shorthand indication of how likely it was that a leftward liberal, non-western-tradition valuing decision-making body can engage in what by titles only seems to be a highly subjective and highly narrowly focused search for overly narrowly focused studies.   Jim Henderson Senior Counsel ACLJ

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