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Abstract:
Last Thursday the Opinion page of the Collegian featured Clare Harter's editorial on "Diversity Disdained." She reports that once she arrived on campus, she was surprised to find how important religion was to her peers. She "had been told that Hillsdale was a non-denominational college, and [she] expected [she] would be able to concentrate on academics without having religion stuffed down [her] throat as it had been back home." Sadly, her Christian peers gave her the cold shoulder because she was not a Christian. Christians are enjoined to share their faith, to speak the truth in love, but that should not mean stuffing religion down someone's throat, or giving the unbeliever a cold shoulder, to use Miss Harter's metaphors. Whenever this happens, it is lamentable. ...

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A Liberterian

posted 9/20/08 @ 11:58 PM EST

I personally am fine with Christians (and members of other religions) talking about their beliefs and practicing their religion as long as it done not impose on the rights of others.
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