I absolutely love my Intro to the Bible class

[Reverend_Smitty]

I was a bit worried about it before I walked in there last week. I didn't know if the professor was going to be a fundie or the class would be full of them. However my fears were eased by the first thing out of the professor's mouth...He asked how many were registered to vote and then went on a mini lecture about how important it is, how this is our future and that this election is the most important election in the history of our nation. From that point on, without ever saying it, I knew he was a lefty!

Then he went off on a tangent about "How Americans are by nature a free thinking people but yet rarely question what we are told by religious leaders about the bible...Another thing he said was, 60 percent of Americans attend church regularly but many are completely ignorant about the teachings and stories of the bible...he also added that the French for example attend church far less regularly than Americans but their knowledge of the bible is far superior on the whole" He got us into a discussion on why that is, and I added it all goes back to our puritanical roots, we were taught not to question the bible back then and it still carries over to today. He thought that I made a very good point there...since there were no major arguments over any of this, I think my class will be fundie free!!

So I can actually study the bible in an academic setting and look at it and analyze it from an objective literary perspective without fundies getting all on my back...I'm really psyched about this class!!