In the words of the Almighty Louis C.K., “It’s really easy to have the body you want; you just have to want a shitty body.” Now that may sound like I struggled for a way to start this piece, but trust me, it has a point.
Depending on where you’re from you may have had to deal with your parents trying to control how much religion you were exposed to while in school. For instance, if you’re from California that amount was probably very little, but if you’re from the South, where they still don’t have sliced bread, then your text book probably said “Jesus and His Pet T-Rex” on the cover.
But the glory of being in college is that you’re finally at an age where you can make your own decisions about what you study. So if you’re one of those students who is having trouble taking certain courses while trying to protect the teaching of your faith then the solution is simple: Take all those religious lessons, put them in a bottle and then stuff that bottle in whatever is the nearest hole to you. You’re at a school. Learn something new.
I know I should be unbiased when it comes to religion and such in schools. People should believe whatever they want, right? And for the most part, yes, they should. But religion has no place in a school where the mysteries in the world can be discovered. Who cares if it goes against your personal beliefs? Why are you here if you’re just going to denounce half of everything you’ll learn?
Not that religion is the worst thing ever for humanity, but what I’m saying to people who are trying to go to school while ensuring their faith remains unshaken. To that I say you can’t. It’s impossible. You’ll learn things that will contradict what you believe. The best thing to do is embrace all of it and then get back in touch with whatever Jesus you believe in on whatever day is holiest to you.
But when you’re in school you should focus on that. Don’t expect the world to cater to your belief system, because it won’t. The world is too big and full of things you can’t comprehend or that religion can explain. So the best thing to do is accept that while you’re here so when you encounter them you won’t want to create an effigy of it and set it on fire.
Relating to what Mr. C.K. said (told you it had a point): it’s easy to mix religion and school; you just have to not do that. The two have no business belonging together. In fact it goes against the values of both to mix in the other. Religion operates in faith and acceptance of blind belief; school tells you to question what you know and accept logic, reason and research. There can only be one. Plus, if your lifelong beliefs can be so easily shaken after a few semesters of school then that probably tells you how strong they were in the first place.
