I guess it's hard for most students to appreciate how it's actually pretty useful for everybody to support some core beliefs. It isn't so hard to participate, after all.

Some day a radical kid in among the other students will go ahead and recite whatever he wants. He will say, "I believe I will kill every American youth around me because I hate every living one of them. This is what I believe." And if we support everybody's freedom to say and think whatever they want, it can be a pretty dangerous world.

Honestly, belief in a Judeo-Christian God is far superior than all the academic dribble about personal freedom. We are all servants of consumerism and industry. There is no true freedom. But even those who are shackled can live in relative peace and harmony by their shared values and beliefs.