Well, I'm back at school now, if only for a week. We're here for the SIT DOWN AND LEARN STUFF time right now, but on Saturday we will be heading out to fly overseas. I'm really excited for that. Mostly because I get to go see Turkey again. Turkey's one of my favorite places ever. Aside from Peru.
The reading for the class is really quite interesting. It's helpful to bring context to how Christianity has appeared in its early history. For example, there are a lot of philosophies that have some parallels within Christianity, and things like that. Also, the religious environment in those times was actually kind of interesting to read about it. Cults, for example, were not what we think of today. Back in the day, they were almost the exact opposite - you could follow any combination of those that help you with your own faith. This helped promote the polytheism. It's interesting to think that Christianity and Judaism were the outliers in this time. Also it's just kind it is interesting to think that yes, Christianity is growing around the time that the book is talking about, but it's not it's the dominant religion just yet. It's not even the dominant style of worship.
The trip is finally coming together, or so it feels. I'm really excited. Most of class time today was going over what to pack and things like that. Our religious studies professor (henceforth referred to as Dr. B) was very thorough, but our choir professor (henceforth referred to as Dr. R) pointed out in choir today that half his reason for this was that Dr. B used to head the Office of International Education - so he's seen all the lousyness that people can get into over things that they have forgotten and things like that.
Right, well, Dr. B has assigned homework, which I need to get to. Farewell!
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