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Date: January 12, 2024 01:05PM
Taylor Swift not Jonathan Swift. I feel like I’m living in a Babylon Bee headline world. Glad I’m not subsidizing the church any longer with our hard earned $ but for those of you who are, look what that dough is helping to pay for:
https://universe.byu.edu/2024/01/09/ryan-davis-the-philosophy-of-taylor-swift%EF%BF%BC/Davis, who’s been working on a syllabus for the past year about what he calls “Philoswiftie” (the philosophy of Taylor Swift), will be teaching the first class on Taylor Swift ever taught at BYU in winter 2024. The class code is POLI 360 and will be called “Miss Americana: Taylor Swift, Ethics, and Political Society.”
There are no more seats available for the class this winter, but those interested should stay tuned for future semesters.
Nothing less than idol worship. That's exactly what it is. I guess this is becoming more the norm at BYU. Her fans get super offended at people who don't like her music. They look at you as if you are crazy. They think she is a genius when her music is typical dumb manufactured corporate pop. She gets credit for writing her songs even if she doesn't because she is a corporate product.
I don't know what you would get out of a brainless university course like this. I see all these people with degrees and debt and frequently losing jobs. This creates an even bigger problem. College really is the greatest scam! think this is a major step in the right direction. Some would say it's been years since BYU has taught any kind of moral philosophy.
You know, it’s one thing for them to be teaching these sorts of classes at a public univ but for a private, supposed church focused school that’s heavily funded by the widow’s mite it just rubs me wrong.
I’ve listened to countless first hand accounts of church members recount how they’d save up for yrs to pay for the multi-day bus trip from Guatemala to AZ to attend the temple. I’ve had missionaries sit at my dinner table tell us how they sold everything to go on a mission. Then I read stories like this in the news and it’s as if the church is peeing on these members in the grossest fashion. This church is telling the poorest people of the earth that in order to receive salvation they need to give this monstrosity, a whore of the earth, called a church 10% of what little they have. Most of those people will never walk the halls of BYU or set foot on temple square. They’re subsidizing rich white Americans so they can live their 1st world pleasure seeking degrees and study Taylor Swift. It’s pathetic & it needs to stop.