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I’m the PP and I did think of that on my own. But you’re free to use it, I don’t mind.
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Yes- the Hebrew Bible is the Torah not the Talmud. I think I can speak for most Jews who don’t take issue with calling it the Old Testament in an academic setting to differentiate. The Ten Commandments are front and center in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. That said, I don’t expect this to stand up constitutionally even among the conservative justices. Should be interesting. |
No more than LGBTQ books in the library. |
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I thought conservatives opposed indoctrination in schools?
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But it's OK for them to indoctrinate Christianity. |
I don't think you do speak for most Jews. "Old Testament" is inappropriate for an academic setting because it presumes replacement by a "New Testament". That is an imposition of religious bias as inappropriate as... mounting the 10 commandments in secular spaces! |
I wonder how many of them insisted on the 10 Commandments in school but want to remove free lunches for children. |
One more thought: even if you don't feel like Christian supersessionism is a particular problem today, you should realize that the idea sets the model for a deeply-rooted conviction that it is right/just/true/inevitable that Jews will be replaced in other contexts. That's why it feels truthy for some people to claim that Black people were the real Jews, Puritans were the real Jews, the Jews of today are not descended from the ancient Israelites, Jesus was a Jewish Palestinian, the Holocaust was not about the Jews, etc. Basically, "Old Testament" reflects a very old worldview that holds we exist to be replaced. |
The real problem is that the only affordable colleges for white non-poor kids are in abhorrent states. So maybe when we stop providing subsidized education for everyone but my kids I can send DC to an at-least-moderate college. But I am not interested, nor can I pay for, everyone else’s education simply to have my child go to a desired school. Simply because we make more than 250k a year (which is not a lot in a HCOL area) So, see you soon South. The liberals are making policies that make turning to red states a necessity in some scenarios. |
What do you think the past tense of fight is? |