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throwawaygh | 3 years ago

The vast majority of Christian Church-affiliated colleges in the USA are either catholic (Jesuit in particular) or Mainline. In both of those cases, the denominational ties do not preclude attendance at the college/university by non-Christians, LGBT, etc. Either in policy or in practice. If a university is Catholic or Mainline, it's pretty safe to assume that the college is open to all and that a huge % of students attending the school are not from that denomination (or particularly theistic).

Places like Wheaton (Chicago), Cedarville, Liberty, CofO, etc. are very much the outliers in terms of how church-affiliated higher ed institutions behave toward non-fundamentalist-conservative-Christians.

BTW, being Christian is not enough at CofO. The important thing is to be socially conservative and fit in with the fundy crowd. Mainline lutherans, for example, definitely aren't welcome. The national-ethnic-religious-political belief complex that is de facto required to get by at CofO is probably not even recognizable as Christianity to a European Christian eye.

Anyways, with respect to CofO, the bigotry is really not even relevant. Compare the CS faculty at Truman/Rolla/etc. vs CofO. The work study program is a $20/hr job for 15 hours a week. You can get up to $15/hr easy and your improved internship placements out of Truman/Rolla will put you ahead of CofO even before graduation. Ten years down the road there's probably close to an entire 0 in outcome differences.

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