My atheism comes from that study of religion.>>>
Have you ever read Huston Smith's "The World's Religions" ?
"Have you ever read Huston Smith's "The World's Religions" ?
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Indeed I have. It was one of the first books on comparitive religion that I ever read. It was the textbook for a "Religions of the World" class my Freshman year of college in 1963. The book was relatively new at that time, and was adopted by the professor as the text for the class. It turned out that he had not read it before assigning it. He blustered frequently in disagreement with some of the text. He was a Southern Baptist minister, teaching the class part-time, and often became very uncomfortable in his teaching of the course, sometimes reverting to preaching sermons, rather than sticking to the subject. It was the cause for much merriment at his expense, I'm sorry to say.
Later on, I attended Syracuse University and got a chance to attend a lecture by Huston Smith. A very gentlemanly sort of fellow, who was always interested in a friendly discussion.