Reply #84: What's the religion class actually supposed to be about?

[struggle4progress]

My advice is to ignore pathetic garbage like this completely, if that is possible.

Choose your "take" for the religion class: you're going to concentrate on the use of certain words, or you're going to concentrate on the development of such-and-such an idea, or you're going to concentrate on certain metaphors. Then stick to your "take" and whenever you have to deal with bogus garbage like this, you change the subject: "I find it very interesting that the author chooses to quote such-and-such, which occurs in the context of a passage that blah-blah-blah (and then off you go on a tangent)." If somebody objects that you have gone off on a tangent, you simply deny that and explain how very important context is to understanding whatever it was that was being spoken of. A little practice -- and you're good to go.