theology students looses scholoraship

[mad1]

fox

What next to loose?

[nomaxim]

Wasn't Mich. in that Race point entrance exam thinger a couple of months ago?

[mad1]

That would be Mich.This had to do with entry into the lawyer feild.
They have changed it since, to what I am not sure of.

[nomaxim]

That figures.

What's next in Mich. :

J/K,
Entrance Exam requirements;
Cannot believe in any of the following;
Christ,The Pope,Islam,Iman's,Shinto,Budda,Amon-Ra,Chuxtalla(Aztec, look it up), Saints,Mother's,Minister's,Zeus( or any other Greek stuff),Peabody Awards,Father's,Thor(or any other Viking crap), Moses,Animialism,Tree Worshippers,Wicthdocter's, or any other Pagen People.

If I missed any please PM me so I can have them added!

[M_Six]

Now that's just wrong.

Theology is a legitimate course of study and is not in any way an endorsement of religion. I'm an atheist, but I consider myself a student of theology because the subject fascinates me. I don't see a "blurring" of anything here except in the reasoning of the state. This is state stupidity at its worst.

[J-Excel]

If state funded schools offer theology classes and majors, states should offer scholarships for those programs. I studied theology a little at a state school. I don't see scholarships for theology students as an endorsement for religion by the state, or as preaching to a captive audience like school prayers would be.

[J-Excel]

Even the "leftist" 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals thinks this is wrong.

http://www.freedomforum.org/template...cumentID=16568

This isn't a new rule regarding the Michigan Competitive Scholarship. The state began prohibiting the scholarship for theology students in 1980. I'm surprised this wasn't challenged before.

[sixf00t4]

thats crap, give the student the money.

[Theophylact]

Seems to me there are two separate issues here. Theology is a legitimate academic discipline, and should be as eligible for scholarship money as many others; indeed, it seems to me that there are a lot of "disciplines" that are eligible for money that aren't legitimate.

On the other hand I can't see why the state should pay to train people to become sectarian ministers. Seems to me that's the job of the individual sect. Why should the US Government, for example, subsidize medressas to train Wah'habi preachers?

(No, I'm not dead or sick: the power's still off at home, thanks to Isabel, and this morning is the first chance I've had since Thursday to get on the Net.)

[ClubMed]

IMO if its a university that’s been accredited by the government then obviously it's courses are accredited too. So if the government accredits a theology course at a university then it should award scholarships for such courses, since the government has already accredited the course within the accredited university.

Anything else doesn't make sense really, you can't accredit a theology course and then they say you can't pay the student a scholarship for the course.

If they don't want to pay scholarships to theology students then they should not accredit universities that offer theology courses. In such a case it could be left to churches, mosques and synagogues to offer theology courses, the government can then safely distance itself and not pay scholarships to anyone studying at such locations.