this class is a joke
he wrote "i shall return" on the board and then left for the entirety of class, coming back in the last 5 minutes to write "ill see you on friday"
he has spent the first 10 minutes of class talking about if trump should be assassinated
there are now 10 minutes left in class and he has just begun teaching
- insider pespective to religion: an adherent's perspective; first order activity; teaching of religion
- outsider perspective: no commitment to a religious tradition, reflection upon the practice of a religion; teaching about religion
religion(paul tillich def): the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and contains the meaning of life
religion(melford spiro): an institution consisting of culturally patterned interaction with culturally postulated superhuman beings