Not having studied religion ever, at all, and having been brought up in a religious household and a religious school all the way through high school, I only thought religion existed to be religious.
I never thought you could study religion, how it affects politics, how it affects socio-cultural phenomena, how it interacts with popular culture, and how they feed each other, how they influence each other, how they change each other. To me, that was beyond fascinating. As we would say, beyond dope.
I feel like I'm this advocate in looking at how religion is everywhere—it's embedded in our culture—and how it affects and the effects that it has.