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Originally Posted by Titchou
What is meant by not discussing religion is to not discuss the particulars of a specific religion. The same for politics. If you were majoring in political science you could certainly tell them that. It's getting into the specifics of your politics or religion that may cause an issue. So since you could say I'm majoring in poli sci because I find the ins and outs of the political system in our country to be interesting, you could say you are interested in the religions of the world as a historical perspective, or whatever.
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Yes. I think the idea of sort of off limit topics is so that you don't end up alienating your conversational partners, putting them on the defensive, or even just boring them.
But I'll note that it has always struck me as much more awkward for people to all of a sudden clam up when they realized they nearing a forbidden subject than it is just to go forward with sort of normal questions, but not focus or probe on the controversial.
There's no reason to force a topic on someone, but don't make something that's not usually conversationally weird suddenly loom really large simply because it's recruitment.
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