I've never objected to being managed by anybody with an arts degree and never will. English, communications, philosophy, have at it. Some of my best technical managers majored in English.
Theology says something specific about how you process reality.
Sorry, this wasn't clear enough to you in my original comment. My point was that judging someone's ability to do CS negatively by their interest in theology, as presented by the person I was replying to, is refuted by a well-known example. Makes sense now?
Not necessarily - theology is just philosophy. Biblical literalism is an almost uniquely American phenomenon, there are plenty of Christians around the world and in the US who don't believe the earth was literally created 6000 years ago.
Applied Theology is an American evangelist field of study that focuses on shaping your life and the world around you to operate according to the will and word of the Christian Evangelist god.
"Everything from preaching to media technology, from helping with funerals to discipling [sic] unbelievers."
This is one of those very frustrating conversations to have online, not that different from people saying "but it's the People's Democratic Republic of whatever."
The Baptist thing called "applied theology" is a part of the Dominionist movement. Fundamentally it's a theocratic endeavor.
I agree that theology has been used in a thousand ways across two thousand years and I'm sad that if you have a degree in "Applied Theology" from a small religious college in the Midwest it's definitely not just "I was thinking of becoming a minister."
But dominionism is a real thing. People major in it, they drop out, they get other jobs, and then you have this record of their beliefs right there on their resumes. It'd be easier if they had no degree at all.
you could well be right that this is a dominion thing, though I don't see anything suggesting such - but then I can imagine it's not openly promoted, if so.
> Everything from preaching to media technology, from helping with funerals to discipling [sic] unbelievers
I don't see an issue with this, if discipling unbelievers means something similar to promoting the church, or missionary-esque behaviour (of the non-colonial form, obviously). If it means how to deal with atheists in a theocracy then I'm not a fan.
Theology says something specific about how you process reality.