General Discussion

Yes the religions are not separate, they are all the same.

One illuminating day, the professor was recounting a story about Buddha.

The story is that one day Buddha was sitting under a tree meditating,
he cut off his hair and threw it up in the hair. The hair did not fall to earth,
but floated in front of him.

The class all laughed at the absurdity, but the professor then asked how is this any different
from the story that Christ walked on water. We don't laugh at that story.

A class of mostly 18 year olds were stopped in their tracks and silent.
Their life long religious dogma challenged and put in proper perspective.

The professor was an interesting man. He had red hair and pale skin, to me he looked Irish.
But he was a (devout) Jew of Eastern Europe descent. He was also deaf and had learned to read lips
and speak. He had a quiet, humble, sweet demeanor, but like your professor moved us all
forward into thinking adults.

The reading list in the other class was standard as I recall.
Plato's work about the nature of reality and humanity.
And then the more modern dystopian classic novels.
Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. ...
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. ..