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Originally Posted by Gunth0807
NO--Daniel Dennett does NOT agree with what you are saying at all. You are arguing that schools ought to teach courses on Christianity from an explicitly religious context,
as though Christianity were true so that students get an idea of what it is like for believers. If you want this, go to a Christian school like I did, because you will get plenty of this. Dennett is arguing for a course that teaches the basic doctrines, beliefs, and practices of
all the major religions without the assumption that any of them are "true". Those are not the same propositions at all.
Just to illustrate the difference:
In Catholic school, when analyzing a passage from the Gospels, we were asked to write about "what that passage says about God's love for us." When I got to college, the same passage was approached from the perspective of, "what does this passage say about the culture and time in which it was written, and what is the author trying to impart?"
Do you see how different questions these are? Do you see how much more useful the latter is for a student's intellectual growth?