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Originally Posted by kim_johnson
'as it says in the book of Genesis 'god said xxxxx' vs 'god said xxx in the book of genesis'
'as it says in the koran yyyyy'
'as president clinton said zzzzz'
can you hear the difference?
i have no problem with people learning about religion as... sociology. as history. it has played an important role in human society. i have no problem with people learning about religion as... poetry. as a literary work.
i do have a problem with only learning about ONE religion (rather than taking some time to learn about all the major faiths). and i do have a problem with trying to teach people the true and only way, or whatever.
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This answer makes a lot of sense to me. There are things we can learn about human cultures by studying religion but studying only 1 religion with the assumption that it is all true is heavily biased and is unlikely to produce any positive results.