“A religious campus can be a lonely place for someone who doesn’t subscribe to faith,” said King, now 23 and a graduate student in biology. “We want to reach out to these people.”
The [University of] Dayton students are not alone. The Secular Student Alliance, a national organization of nontheistic students with 320 campus chapters, reports at least two other religious universities””Notre Dame and Baylor””have rejected clubs for atheist, agnostic, humanist and other nontheistic students. Students at Duquesne, a Catholic school, say they have little hope of approval on their first application this year.
Well, if you go to a religious school, what do you expect? If I go to a Engineering school and don’t believe in the basic laws of physics, I doubt I’m going to be well received.
Exactly. If you choose to go to a private institution with an open religious affiliation, don’t act all surprised by the religious affiliation. Go to a vegan restaurant and order a steak, see how that goes. Sheesh!
At Baylor, I quickly learned that atheists—whether students or faculty—had no trouble finding each other.