 Learning about a subject is one thing, like, I study math and we talk about mathematical proofs and numbers and how they interact, but when I'm studying religious studies it's more a study of people and who they are. So it really helps you to better understand the people that you interact with and it helps you to better understand yourself and who you are and what your place in this world is. Understanding religion allows you to separate religion from religious people. Christianity is not necessarily the same as the people who are Christian and making that division allows you to interact in the world in a much more productive way. Just taking classes on religion that isn't your own helps you to be able to discuss things with people and get your point across without only shutting the other person down. I took a class on Judaism and a class on Islam which really affected how I look at my own faith. You have Christianity, you have Islam, you have Buddhism, you have Judaism, these are all religions and people are all attracted to them. Why do they do that? What do these religions have in common that attract people to them which you can then apply to just about anything. The religious studies department, they're so good at knowing both intellectually and personally. They want to introduce you to all sorts of different traditions to see how religions have acted historically. If you have this conceptual training that I got in the department of religion it's easier for an employer to teach you the technical stuff than it is for someone who already knows the technical stuff to learn the conceptual stuff. There is so much to learn and not enough time.