"Are there any Mormons in here?"

My World Foundations teacher has to be one of the most condescending people on this planet.

He has us read these RIDICULOUS things for class. 99.9% of the time, I don't even understand why we are studying the stuff we do.

So we get to class, and then he asks us questions about what we read. And his questions are either worded in a confusing way, or his questions are just really difficult for such a supposed "easy class". A few people are able to answer his questions, but most of us are just freshmen/sophomores, and this is one of the first classes of our college careers we are taking (that doesn't apply to me, but I still feel like his questions are more difficult than the questions in my "harder" classes). Anyway. So then he continues to ask us questions, but he asks "whoever hasn't answered, raise your hands."

Those who haven't answered don't raise their hands, mainly because the reason we didn't answer the first time is because we don't have an answer. At least, not a good enough one.

He's one of those teachers who will ask for your opinion, but if your opinion doesn't match his, he says its wrong.

So we don't raise our hands. Or we do, but we do so reluctantly, and all of us silently pray he doesn't pick on one of us to answer.

During those moments where absolutely none of us raise our hands, he will ask one of the most condescending questions I've ever heard:

"Are there any Mormons in here?"

As if our being Mormon automatically gives us the ability to answer questions that have absolutely NOTHING to do with church. For example, today we discussed Oedipus Rex. For those of you who don't know what that absolute LOVELY tale is about, it is about a man who, at the end of the story, has killed his father and produced children with his MOTHER. Granted, he did it not knowing those people were his parents. But still. 

Can I just ask WHY IS IT NECESSARY TO BE LEARNING ABOUT THIS CRAP?!

So he repeatedly asks that question, and normally asks it every class. 

Are there any Mormons in your class, Brother Gorton? I think if you have to ask us that question every class, then your definition of "being Mormon" is obviously very different from ours.