Readers Recommend the Best Classes Everyone Should Take

When I was a freshman at Georgetown, all incoming students took a class called the problem of God. This course changed my life, and I think everyone should take it. Fewer Americans practice religion every day, although most of us profess a belief in God. But because we are exposed to less religious education—we are not going to church, and religion is taught in fewer schools—we are losing out on learning what religion teaches us: a framework of belief about who God is and how God works in the world. This is, of course, radically different from religion to religion. And it is radically different from every religion to say, for example, “I believe in a little bit of everything,” or “It’s all one God no matter what you believe.” Each religion (or no religion, or panreligion) has unique claims of truth, and all of us, ultimately, claim one. We have to, to make sense of ourselves and the world around us. It is worth our while to consider what our religion really is.

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