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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I'm at work and only got to page three before needing to head off to a meeting. I will post later, but just had to get this in...
On behalf of all my colleagues who teach religious studies at a post-secondary level, I am embarrassed for this:
It absolutely boggles the mind how you managed to earn a university-level minor in religious studies, and missed this rather emphatic point with regards to the Christian religion... Mind... Boggling...
Did you go to clown college?
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Well as a former student of UC's religious studies program, let me share with you what I saw as a flaw in the entire faculty. The department has no interest in searching for truth. It's the only faculty in a university (that I can think of) that operates like this.
I used to be very interested in religion. I grew up in an areligious home and university was my first opportunity to get exposed to it in any way. I remember fighting with my dad about all the religion courses I was taking because he thought they were impractical and a waste of time, but I couldn't get enough of them.
Though unconscious of it at the time, I was waiting for the course that would finally address the only questions that mattered: what aspects of which religions are true, and which are false? I mean, all my astronomy, geophysics, geology, sociology, psychology, etc. classes operated this way and I was mistakenly holding religious studies to the same standard.
Turns out the way in which religion is studied is flawed. For instance, it's my opinion that you shouldn't be teaching religion in a secular university. It'd be like a creationist teaching a paleontology course. Religion should be studied using the scientific method. Establishing the history of religios beliefs is fine, but it stops short.
With so many people believing in so much malarkey, the point of religious studies in a secular university - in addition to the history, context, beliefs - should be about proving and disproving religious claims. That would provide a useful study to humankind and maybe even further our species like other scientific efforts have.