The continuing saga of my religions teacher

[luciazephyr]

"Thanks for the explanations, but I have to ask if you truly believe your statement that you "have no reason to believe any of these faith-based ideas. . ." It can be argued that showing compassion to another person is a faith based idea."

Yes, I do truly believe it, thank you.

And no, it really can't.

Comments

[polarisnorth]

*headdesk*

No it isn't! Faith in a higher being is not required to have a sense of morality!

I am so sorry about your religions teacher. I've actually had an excellent time whenever I've studied religion, but that's largely because my professors don't assume belief. (I wonder if that's because I study Judaism rather than Christianity? But even then, there wasn't an assumption that I believed in some God even if it wasn't the same one.)

[samjohnsson]

Make a note, bring it to the chair at the end of semester. Because obviously, this prof is beyond cause.

I can't name names, but there's like a dozen philosophers (Kant, for some reason, is on my tongue) that would disagree.