Taken from an article in my Religion Major Alumni newsletter from the University of Florida:
The more we learn about religion the less likely we will be to surrender our voices, through our lack of religious knowledge, to political leaders who frequently understand their actions in a religious context
Though about two-thirds of Americans supports both evolution and creationism in the public schools, how can we know what creationism is all about, or intelligently debate its place in our schools, if less than half of us can identify the book of Genesis?
Biblical references abound in public conversation about stem cell research and gay marriage, so how can we make an informed decision about these hot button issues without knowing something about the Bible?
Can we understand the war in Iraq without knowing something about Islam? Isn’t it clear by now that we need to have some basic understand of the difference between Sunnis and Shiites?
