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Old 05-30-2013, 12:43 PM   #244
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Originally Posted by Rathji View Post
If you expected to find out about what parts of religion were true, maybe you should have actually listened in class. I took one religion class, and about 10 minutes into the class, it was pretty clear that that wasn't the goal of studying religion.

Maybe I actually had a good prof, or the ability to comprehend the English language, though.
What class did you take? Individual classes won't necessarily have that mandate, but when you start taking multiple classes on the nature of religions, new religious movements, etc. I expected the curriculum to challenge that which it studies. I think when a Religious Studies professor gets his/her doctorate they adopt something akin to Star Trek's Prime Directive of not interfering with the internal development of the religions in which they study.
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