Originally posted by Stealth Moose
[B]"All jews are greedy.""All jews have big noses and ears."
"All jews are clannish xenophobes."
Sure thing, bro.
Antiperspirant, ftw.
Originally posted by psmith81992
A large chunk of jews ARE greedy. A large chunk of jews ARE clannish xenophobes. You'd be hardpressed to find jews that don't have big noses and ears as far as numbers go.
You're kind of missing the point. Sweeping generalisations don't prove anything and they don't sway arguments; they just take the easy path and paint with broad strokes. Saying all these things doesn't characterize all jews except in the most negative light, similar to how your comment prior could be viewed. And in comparison, my example was far more exclusive.
Originally posted by psmith81992
Hey man I'm just basing what I see from news stories and how specific ones dominate the media.
Then stop watching mainstream news. If I watch MSNBC, I hate Republicans and think the Tea Party is a terrorist organization. If I watch Fox News, I hate poor people and people who like social programs. If I watch CNN, I get round-the-clock coverage of Malaysian airlines.
The solution is to look elsewhere. BBC/NPR are good recommendations. They usually report actual news.
It's not a religion class!
Survey of Jewish philosophy from the eighteenth century to the present. Works of Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Emanuel Levinas, and others in relation to broad European intellectual movements such as existentialism and phenomenology.
It's taught by the director of our Jewish Studies program, who got her Ph.D from John Hopkins.
Originally posted by Zampanó
It's not a religion class!It's taught by the director of our Jewish Studies program, who got her Ph.D from John Hopkins.
Which means what exactly? She knows basic Jewish principles? They don't teach Torah or Gemarah in college and our universities don't exactly paint an objective picture of religion.
Originally posted by Nephthys
I'd think someone who did a Ph.D on Judaism knows a bit more than basic Jewish principles, lol.
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Originally posted by psmith81992
Which means what exactly? She knows basic Jewish principles? They don't teach Torah or Gemarah in college and our universities don't exactly paint an objective picture of religion.
Actually, non-Jewish sources might be far more objective than a bonafide rabbi, for obvious reasons.
Originally posted by Stealth Moose
👆Actually, non-Jewish sources might be far more objective than a bonafide rabbi, for obvious reasons.
University sources about religion are as biased about religion as rabbis are, just two different ends of the spectrum.
And as far as jewish principles go, they aren't "taught" in grad schools lol. You learn that stuff from rabbis, from Yeshiva, etc. I'd take a Rabbi's word on jewish principles over someone with a PhD.
Aside from it being a known fact, yes. I've also taken Modern Jewish history from a guy who calls himself a "rabbi", by reform standards and I shit you not, I knew more than him. I've also taken a religion in the middle east course. I was expecting it to be Muslim biased but a regular white woman taught it. In any case, University professors aren't big on religion.
Originally posted by Stealth Moose
Must be a correleation between higher education and not buying into religious rhetoric.
Other than arrogance and know it all? Doubt it. Then again I don't know many people that take university professors seriously because they do nothing but dabble in "theories". It's more like coffee shop conversation rather than anything intellectual. The best professors I've had were in their fields, whether it was economists for 3rd world country, or former CIA reporters. Getting a PhD in education just to recite stuff isn't impressive.
I've heard religious rhetoric and I've heard secularist rhetoric and if I had to choose between a somewhat god-fearing society and a godless society, I'll choose the latter. I do however like it when some of these professor recite murder rates from the Crusades as some kind of proof that religion suck, then conveniently ignore the displays of secularist/communist despots like Mao and Stalin.