[SampleMan]

Ehrman, a best-selling author and a professor of religious studies...

The #1 requirement for all professors of religious studies is that they not be religious.

[CaspersGh0sts]

The #1 requirement for all professors of religious studies is that they not be religious.

Very much the truth. Religious studies professors study religion--not faith. And they remain quite ignorant about or simply ignore history.

"His claims, though, take on some of Christianity's most sacred tenets, like the resurrection of Jesus. Ehrman says he doesn't think the resurrection took place. There's no proof Jesus physically rose from the dead, and the resurrection stories contradict one another, he says."

How, pray tell, then, did a branch of what was essentially a small, isolated sect in Judaism spread throughout the Roman Empire? Christianity remained largely a lower class phenomenom, yet it spread rapidly. It lacked power, money, influence, and mainstream appeal. And yet it spread from one end of the known world to the other.

People often ignore the spread of other forms of faith. You simply don't see them spread as Christianity spread.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“The #1 requirement for all professors of religious studies is that they not be religious.”

That is not entirely true. In fact, I knew one professor of religious studies who made himself a pest by pointing out the fallacies of ecumenism, at a time when ecumenism was all the rage. This made a lot of people uncomfortable, because it pointed out that if a religion is right, other religions are not, and the majority of people are therefore “wrong”.

However, it is also not up to people to determine what it means to be right or wrong in their religion. It might mean everything, and to be wrong means to be damned; or it might be much of a muchness, as far as heaven is concerned.

But it is not up to people to decide, one way or another. The worst thing that people could do, in his mind, was to try and “blend” religions together. This is because while if it didn’t matter, then it wouldn’t matter; but in all other alternatives, it would be worse for you if you did.

So, in the final analysis, he said if you are religious, then have faith in your religion. If you do not have faith in your religion, then find another religion in which you have faith. But don’t think you can hedge your bets by mixing and matching.

[Oztrich Boy]

The #1 requirement for all professors of religious studies is that they not be religious.

Also Professors of Criminology should not be criminals