How respectable is a degree in Theology?

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20. Depends what you mean by "respectable."

People respect them, ergo, they are respectable.

For my own self, it depends. If the degree is in how people think about religion and how they have thought about it in the past, then its as good as any other history, literature or philosophy degree.

If the degree is in how divinity actually works, then I'm afraid I agree with Dawkins and have very little respect for it. Literature students study literature, science students study the results of experiments, history students study surviving writings. These are all independent bases for drawing conclusion. What does the theologists study? God? How does s/he do that? What that student really studies are other people's guesses about god. There is no real evidence for any of it.