Theology

[Puppycow]

Recently, a 21-year-old Michigan woman, Teresa Becker, was refused state aid funding for her Ave Maria College course in theology. The State Supreme Court interpreted theology to mean "instruction that resembles worship and manifests a devotion to religion and religious principles in thought, feeling, belief and conduct." Nonsense. Theology is a legitimate academic field of study that in no way requires a belief in religion, nor a belief in a deity, any more than a study of history requires that the student must accept history as proven.

While I agree that "Theology is a legitimate academic field of study that in no way requires a belief in religion," in some cases, I have to wonder if an overtly religious college's version of theology is truly a critical analysis of religions or just an attempt to give academic respectability to religious indoctrination. Is this really something the non-religious should be happy about our tax money supporting?

 

[Soapy Sam]

Abstract research?

I'd rather support that than buy more nuclear missiles.

You never know what it might turn up.