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"... Paul Mirecki, chairman of the university's Religious Studies Department . . ."

Pretty odd email statements coming from the chairman of the Religious Studies Department.

"Pretty odd email statements coming from the chairman of the Religious Studies Department."

Perhaps not.

I'm guessing that in order for there to even be a religious studies department, one has to assume a critical mass of individuals who are fundamentally opposed to religion in the first place.

Beginning from a point on the outside of religion, they purport to "study" religion as a rather curious but not universally accepted human oddity.

I never assume academia is on our side. They would have to prove it to me.

Pretty odd email statements coming from the chairman of the Religious Studies Department.

And sending e-mails to the athiest club. I'm not surprised.

Anyone who teaches about many different religions in an unbiased way would become an athiest, if he wasn't to begin with.

Once a person realizes that humans believe all kinds of whacky religions, all with zero evidence to back them up, then it becomes quickly apparent that no religion is true. The only true commonality is that humans can be convinced of almost anything. Even liberalism.

This is why IDers really don't want to "teach the controversy". Because if all beliefs are taught in a way to let the student decide, then the student will reject any prior faith they came into class with, and be much more skeptical about what they believe.