Religion

I took a high school course called "The Bible as Literature". It was taught in the english department. The real point of the course was in order to understand much of western literature, you have to understand much of the bible story. The teacher was very good in that it was less about faith than it was about how the bible influences western literature.

I suspect something similar could be taught about religions in the sense of how they have affected western culture, and really cultures around the world.

The problem of course is that we can't hardly teach history without arguing about the facts. I suspect religion would be even worse. Can you imagine if the same people that write history books for Texas, end up writing texts on comparative religion studies or some such topic?