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BlueEyedLady
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I don’t see why not. I’ve always believed that if for the sake of your belief system you must close yourself off from other theories, philosophies, and ways of thinking than your belief system probably doesn’t hold much water. If you have made up your mind and refuse to listen to anything else out of fear that your mind will change then you aren’t seeking truth, you just fear challenge and change. If you really believe what you do and you really have good reasoning behind it, and you are mature enough to understand and respect what someone is saying even if you don’t agree then you will gain a lot from a secular philosophy course.
I took a Christian Ethics course my first year of college. It certainly didn’t make me a Christian, actually, it only strengthened my atheism. I am currently working as a TA and there are several religious students in the Political Theory course that I’m assisting with and none of them have suddenly decided that by loving themselves unconditionally the drama of the fall and redemption will have played out within them and they have no use for their religion anymore just because Nietzsche said so.
I took a Christian Ethics course my first year of college. It certainly didn’t make me a Christian, actually, it only strengthened my atheism. I am currently working as a TA and there are several religious students in the Political Theory course that I’m assisting with and none of them have suddenly decided that by loving themselves unconditionally the drama of the fall and redemption will have played out within them and they have no use for their religion anymore just because Nietzsche said so.