Lose your religious bigotry. A professor at a left wing cesspool like UW Madison hardly reflects the Christianity of most Americans. It’s that elitist, condescending attitude that got Trump elected. The MAGA people would burn their own house down as long as yours went with it.
Lose your religious bigotry. A professor at a left wing cesspool like UW Madison hardly reflects the Christianity of most Americans. It’s that elitist, condescending attitude that got Trump elected. The MAGA people would burn their own house down as long as yours went with it.
My objections are not religious but historical. Studying ancient texts and culture - of any kind - requires leaving behind religious beliefs to attempt to recover the meanings in their socio- cultural setting. Calling that “religious bias” is like accusing a medical researcher of bias because they don’t accept RFK’s unscientific programs. The danger here is the use of traditions that have an ancient historical framework to address issues from within our socio-political context. I cannot accept White Christian Nationalism just to get along any more than I could favor tariffs as if economic theory and evidence didn’t matter.
You called Christianity, or at least the Evangelical kind, “a defunct and harmful religion”. You and I both know you would sooner cut out your own tongue than have the courage to say that about Islam in the faculty lounge. You would lose your job before you could make it out the building
Of course I wouldn’t, nor would I state my condemnation of Evangelicals in an academic setting. I will say, however, that you have no idea of the nature of faculty discussions, including the frankness of scholars in conversation. My speech here is politically oriented, having to do with the deleterious effects of conservative Evangelicalism on society (they aren’t favorable to individual liberties, for example). And that’s something validated by abundant sociological research.
lol. As an intellectual historian name me a predominantly Islamic nation with a strong history of individual liberties? Does your Islamic studies program at UWM perform an exegetical study of the Koran breaking down its origins and historical accuracy like scholars have felt free to do with the Bible for the last 200 years? The students would riot!
My classes were filled with students from Christian, Jewish and other backgrounds. Classes always filled to their cap, with students petitioning me at the first class session to let them in over the cap. But it’s nice to hear from an anti-intellectual.
Lose your religious bigotry. A professor at a left wing cesspool like UW Madison hardly reflects the Christianity of most Americans. It’s that elitist, condescending attitude that got Trump elected. The MAGA people would burn their own house down as long as yours went with it.
My objections are not religious but historical. Studying ancient texts and culture - of any kind - requires leaving behind religious beliefs to attempt to recover the meanings in their socio- cultural setting. Calling that “religious bias” is like accusing a medical researcher of bias because they don’t accept RFK’s unscientific programs. The danger here is the use of traditions that have an ancient historical framework to address issues from within our socio-political context. I cannot accept White Christian Nationalism just to get along any more than I could favor tariffs as if economic theory and evidence didn’t matter.
You called Christianity, or at least the Evangelical kind, “a defunct and harmful religion”. You and I both know you would sooner cut out your own tongue than have the courage to say that about Islam in the faculty lounge. You would lose your job before you could make it out the building
Of course I wouldn’t, nor would I state my condemnation of Evangelicals in an academic setting. I will say, however, that you have no idea of the nature of faculty discussions, including the frankness of scholars in conversation. My speech here is politically oriented, having to do with the deleterious effects of conservative Evangelicalism on society (they aren’t favorable to individual liberties, for example). And that’s something validated by abundant sociological research.
Would you say that Islam is favorable to individual liberties?
Islam is no more a monolith than Christianity.
lol. As an intellectual historian name me a predominantly Islamic nation with a strong history of individual liberties? Does your Islamic studies program at UWM perform an exegetical study of the Koran breaking down its origins and historical accuracy like scholars have felt free to do with the Bible for the last 200 years? The students would riot!
Can you imagine being a conservative student taking a class taught by this guy? It’s why parents send their kids to Hillsdale
My classes were filled with students from Christian, Jewish and other backgrounds. Classes always filled to their cap, with students petitioning me at the first class session to let them in over the cap. But it’s nice to hear from an anti-intellectual.