Semantic Drift posted an article from Salon magazine about how the Bush Administration has been hiring graduates from the ultra-conservative Regent College, founded by Pat Robertson.
“U.S. News and World Report, which does the definitive ranking of colleges, lists Regent as a tier-four school, which is the lowest score it gives. It’s not a hard school to get into. You have to renounce Satan and draw a pirate on a matchbook. This is for the people who couldn’t get into the University of Phoenix.”
It seems that in Washington these days, your religious conviction trumps lesser talents such as brainpower and ability.
I would have fallen off the seat laughing if it were not so discomfiting. Anyhoo – it’s worth a read.
Hmm. “Faith Based Politics”. Anyone for a “Faith Based Car”? Or, perhaps, a “Faith Based Nuclear Power Station”? Thought not.
Passive Impressions 
Oh… more fundamentalists??
I’ve been looking a little more closely at Regent and Bob Jones (a sister University of similarly dubious academic merit) and what scares me isn’t so much that they are laughable, but that they are explicitly designed to churn out lawyers and policymakers to somehow win back the nation for Christianity. As if we were all a bunch of heathens, and our church-state distinctions weren’t blurry enough already. It’s kind of like in the sixties, when the black universities trained a generation of civil rights warriors to fight things like Plessy v. Ferguson except, you know, for scary fundamentalists. There is a real sense that these universities are academies for apocalyptic God-Warriors who will use the political system to fight for Jesus in the end times, and that scares me just a little.
Check out the Bill Moyers links on my blog – might give you a bit of hope?