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The toughest subject for Christian students is Christianity

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/the_toughest_subject_for_christian_students_is_christianity_20080616/

World religions teacher shocked by how little Christians know about Christianity: "The things I tell students are so different from the things they have heard in church that I can hear their brains straining against the waves. They never noticed that Matthew and Luke tell different stories of Jesus' birth, or that Mark and John tell no such stories at all. They never imagined that the first Christians did not walk around with New Testaments in their pockets. No one ever told them about Constantine, Augustine, Benedict or Martin Luther. They never thought about what happened during the centuries between Jesus' resurrection and their own professions of faith ..."

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