Today's class definitely showed me that I need to better define myself religiously. You all seem to assume that because I have made clear that I come from a background where religion is not the most important thing, I take other things in place of religion. This is definitely not the case. The reason why I have prefaced many of my comments by saying that my upbringing was not very religious was to ensure that a lack of knowledge on my part was not assumed to be insulting. I definitely do not know as much about religion as many people in our class, so I have been attempting to be respectful.
Believe it or not I am a rather religious person, it's just something that I find to be deeply personal. Not only is it personal, but it is also confusing. Having an omni-religious background has not been easy. So please do not assume that I take academia as my religion. It is not. Academia is often easier for me to understand, so in class situations I often revert to it.
I hope this clears some things up...
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I understand and sympathize with your frustrating position. It is human nature to try and simplify complex issues. And often we presume internal characteristics from very few external clues. I think the point one of our classmates was trying to make is that the struggle between a non-religious solely academic stance, not one that you in particular espouse, and a religious viewpoint is the same struggle between to contrasting religious viewpoints. Maybe you have some insight into that comment due to your background... or maybe not. But please know that intention was just to draw a similarity and not categorize you as 'non-religious'.
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