Academic Epidemic

From an article titled, "The Shaming of Religion" in Liberty magazine:


"In an attempt to avoid offending anyone, America's public schools have incresingly adopted a zero-tolerance attitude toward religious expression. The courts have not helped, allowing schools the discretion to let an offended minority control a cowed majority. Such politically correct thinking has resulted in a host of inane actions, from the Easter Bunny being named 'Peter Rabbit' to the Christmas concerts being dubbed 'Winter' concerts...What school officials and the courts fail to understand is that by agreeing to sanitize the schools of anything remotely related to religion, they will not only be silencing an entire segment of the population, but will also be contributing to a cultural bereft of a rich heritage of Western art, music and literature--all of which, at one time or another, has been greatly influenced by religion" (Whitehead, John W.)

Whether or not true Christianity is a minority of majority may be up for debate, but as a recent college grad I can personally vouch for this unfortunate phenomenon in some of my classes. More often than not, my teachers would briefly mention religious influences in an author's work or merely treat treat the subject matter as archaic.