lessons i learned from coach kinkaid
i took a class in high school called "comparitive religions". not really having a religion to call my own, i was interested to see what other people had to say about their faiths. also, i feel like it's important to know about different religions before you make a choice for yourself. so i took this class. i was pretty excited about it.
i entered the first day of class to find that the well loved football coach, coach kinkaid was going to be "teaching". i really can't remember if we had a textbook or not. i do know that we had quizzes. about one every two weeks. one or two days before the quiz, coach would hand out a worksheet with fill in the blank sentences, in which the blanks were already filled in for us. for example: "Polytheism means to have more than one god." the other questions were about as equally mind-numbing. anyhow, we spent the class period memorizing this worksheet, and the following day we were handed an identical worksheet with the blanks left empty to serve as our quizzes.
the days between the quizzes were spent learning important religious lessons from bart and homer simpson, kevin arnold, paul pfeiffer, winnie cooper, and a handful of actors from various tnt made for tv movies. then every once in awhile on our quizzes, we would have thrown in a question like "abu, the 7-11 worker, was hindu".