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I've seen this story, and it's ridiculous. The paper wasn't graded poorly because of its religious content, it was given a zero automatically because it was a response to an article that cited absolutely zero sources, including the article that it was supposedly responding to.
I've always been fairly live and let live about religion, and Christianity in particular - some Christians are annoying about it, sure, but most of them I have always assumed are just having their own faith and happy in turn to live and let live. The last few years though I've really come to despise Christianity in particular, and the majority of Christians as a result, because of shit like this. Christians on the while really do seem just completely incompatible with a live and let live attitude, they need their particular view on the world (regardless of how actually Christian is) to be the way of the world and they will use every tactic at their disposal to force it on the rest of us
All religions have zealots that gatekeep and threaten others to think the same way or die. It just happens to be Christians this time. Right now in other parts of the world, Hindi and Islam have the very same problems. I'm sure there's some crazy Buddha sect but I just don't want to fall into a zealot rabbit hole right now so I'm not going to look it up. But overwhelmingly this is the pattern for religions - be exciting, be inviting, guard the members, rule the members, die together (war or self harm).
If it weren't for religion we would have mental health solved but the crazy people who become cult leaders convince enough people that the healers are the danger. Religion gives an equal voice to the insane.
Sure, and more generally I'm sick of religion, but Christianity is the one that has the biggest impact on my life and so it's where all my disdain goes. I still don't hate religion, fundamentally it's religious people that I hate, and they'd only be using something else if religion didn't exist. But fuck me do I have no patience for Christians these days
From the AP article.
The assignment was for a psychology class about lifespan development. Students were asked to write a 650-word response to an academic study that examined whether conformity with gender norms was associated with popularity or bullying among middle school students.
“Please note that I am not deducting points because you have certain beliefs,” the instructor wrote in feedback obtained by The Oklahoman. Instead, the instructor said the paper did “not answer the questions for the assignment.”
The paper “contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive” the criticism went on.
The article links to the essay, but not to the referenced paper. Does anyone have a link to the original paper?
Edit: The Wikipedia article has sa link to the academic paper. In the Wikipedia page, it's claimed that another instructor reviewed the grade and agreed with the zero. I don't have the rubric, so I can't judge for myself, but I wonder other than not turning in the paper or mentioning that there was a paper to read, what would earn you a zero? Her paper was a rant.
When ''Bible based' requires no citation, no quotations, and no information thats in the Bible.
There's no reason to be an educator in states like Oklahoma, where education takes a backseat to dogma.
I imagine it can be an easy job though? Fake your credentials, but day you go to church 3 times a week, and guaranteed job?
And die a little inside every day?
Stuff like this happening more and more makes me wanna believe, that new atheism was sabotaged by the right. Some in the RationalWiki facebook group noticed that all those "conservative atheists" had the same few professional photo model guys as their avatar (except they made sure they used different photos), with some constantly making the same grammatical errors. Yet we needed to accomodate these "conservative atheists", to build a "big tent movement" and to attract other conservatives into the movement, all while compromising a lot of our ideas, and stopping calling out christian bigotry and psedoscience, to keep it "apolitical". However, knowing how much pick-mes in all circles exist (conservative gamers also started out like that, to shield gaming from conservative censorship, except they eventually incorporated said censorship to a degree), those trolls might have been unnecessary by whatever creationist org's interns or by Russian trollfarms did them.