RE: Muslim students less likely to be awarded top class degrees.
March 19, 2020 at 3:03 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2020 at 3:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It might not be possible to faithfully believe in iron age myths and still achieve in a silicon based economy.
Anywho, ofc we can separate people who believe in those myths literally from people who believe in them....metaphorically. These two groups don't actually believe the same things. No more than you..Bel..a clear cultural christian...believe that the crackers and the grape juice turn into body and flesh.
One would hope that the number of metaphorical believers was (and was becoming) greater than the portion of the other. Insomuch as faithful islam actively denies metaphoric interpretations - it would not be surprising for muslims to underperform relative to their metaphorically faithful peers.
In western parlance, one group is Catholic...the other is culturally catholic. Religious nutters don't do well here, either. Here again we (potentially) validate the data. 3% can't absorb a single muslim nutter any more than it can absorb a single dumb muslim...which is fucking redundant.
Anywho, ofc we can separate people who believe in those myths literally from people who believe in them....metaphorically. These two groups don't actually believe the same things. No more than you..Bel..a clear cultural christian...believe that the crackers and the grape juice turn into body and flesh.
One would hope that the number of metaphorical believers was (and was becoming) greater than the portion of the other. Insomuch as faithful islam actively denies metaphoric interpretations - it would not be surprising for muslims to underperform relative to their metaphorically faithful peers.
In western parlance, one group is Catholic...the other is culturally catholic. Religious nutters don't do well here, either. Here again we (potentially) validate the data. 3% can't absorb a single muslim nutter any more than it can absorb a single dumb muslim...which is fucking redundant.
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