The proposal met a fairly cool reception--lots of worries about hassles from upset students, is this the department for this kind of thing, etc.
Afterwards I looked up the book. Onellion and Fortney take the position, if references can be trusted to describe it accurately, that any dogmatic position whatsoever is evil. The only useful religions are those that have no "dogma," which curiously enough included Buddhism. Any sort of Christianity or Islam or Judaism that makes propositional statements, as opposed to filtering everything through mysticism, they hate.
A course on science and religion might be useful, but this one isn't going to help any.
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