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Originally Posted by Sliver
In the same way doctors go all over the world giving vaccines and condoms to the poorest people on earth, Religious Studies Departments - if they wanted to use the knowledge they have - could put boots on the ground and educate people.
As an example, in some African countries they'll kill you for being gay by using religious justifications. The scholars need to establish where in the bible that is coming from, then debunk it, then educate people on why using religious justifications to kill people is wrong.
Closer to home, they should have done the exact same thing in California when the Mormons launched their campaign to take away gay marriage from California. Instead, I didn't hear a single thing said from scholars of religious studies debunking the rationale of the religious person's voice, to the detriment of equal treatment of gay people.
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Wow. You've missed the point of academics entirely. University is there to provide you with the facts. It's YOUR job to build on that knowledge, add to that knowledge through your own research, and to create your own understanding and your own arguments. They are not there to tell you what is right and wrong. That's not the point of an education.