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Academia is a malignant cancer at this point.

>>659306

What, you don't think a course entitled "Jesus and Buddha" will provide solid theological foundation?

>>659308

They'll teach you about the historical Jesus and the framework of Christianity, as well as for Buddhism. They might throw in some SJW shit.

Believe me, the historical Jesus is very different than the Jesus of the Gospels. You might end up a bit confused afterwards, but the leap of faith, as well as that the only thing historians can truly know about Jesus is that he was baptized and crucified.

This just gives more mystery to the Gospels and, I believe that through in depth study of newfound Gospels people will be able to find some, very, very, very groundbreaking information sooner or later.

>>659306

> at this point.

always has been

>>659316

You mean suppressed right

>>659327

Yes, actually.

>>659311

No one wants to buy your shitty book Reza.

>>659314

No, the ancient academy was great. The Medieval academy was fantastic. Academia was fine until maybe around the time of Spinoza (although I think he never worked formally as an academic because he was barred because he was Jewish, but his influence was toxic). Academia stayed perfectly viable until Freud in the 1930s and the Marxist takeover in the 1960s was the final nail in the coffin. Now it just keeps getting worse and worse and should just be consigned to the flame at this point.

>>659302

>Plays drinking game:

>"Go through list of religious courses in OP's links and take a shot every time Islam, Buddhism, or Hinduism is mentioned."

>Dies of alcohol poisoning.

>>659399

Actual Brown Courses:

> Spiritual But Not Religious: Making Spirituality in America

> Christianity and Culture

> The Imaginary Lives of Muslims

> Kabbalah: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism

> The Classical Chinese Philosophy of Life

UnSurprisingly Absent:

> New Testament Exegesis

> Systematic Theology

> Church History & Liturgy

>>659409

The closest thing you have to church history is a history of the Reformation

>>659409

Knowledge is power. The more ignorant our enemies become, the better. It's pretty easy to make a Marxist play the fool in a debate about religion when they've never been exposed to any facts about Christianity.

I realized by my second semester that I stood to learn nothing from my courses, and so spent my evenings in the library educating myself. Never let your schooling get in the way of your education.

>>659433

>Never let your schooling get in the way of your education.

This is so true and also so depressing that this statement has come to define the modern college/university experience overall; period.

>>659393

>Academia was fine until maybe around the time of Spinoza

Pico de Mirandolla and Cornelius Agrippa proves it was always corrupt from its founding

>Now it just keeps getting worse and worse and should just be consigned to the flame at this point.

STEM is fine, every other discipline— law, arts, education, literature, political science— is literally taken over at the higher levels by esoteric kabbalism.

>>659462

Economics and art history are also decent holdouts.

>>659462

>Pico de Mirandolla and Cornelius Agrippa proves it was always corrupt from its founding

You're right that there have always been cancers, but they were isolated and did not spread far. With Spinoza, the tumor became malignant. At last in 1968, the patient entered the terminal stage. We are witnessing the death throes now.

>>659302

>looks over them

Christian subjects are too tied to politics, but its not that bad.

>Let me guess, the thread is gonna be filled with faggots that want to ban superior education, and burn books;

>Yup

You folks are retarded for getting a hissy-fit over this shit.

>but cant you see academia has become a commie indoctrination center, under a marxist conspiracy!

There were bona-fide maoist organisations several decades ago, and students literally seizing labs, and participating in courses without enrolling, because science was classist, and state education was bourgeois, or shit like that.

This is nothing.

>>659602

Pretty sure the Christians didn't burn the Library of Alexandria for the reason pop culture says they did.

>>659623

Only reason they cooled it on the terrorist stuff was because law enforcement became so good at infiltrating radical organizations in the 1970s and 1980s (bless their hearts) and so whenever they set up some kind of attack it turns out to be a sting. They still constantly do violent "protest" stuff like the Evergreen seizures and the Trump riots.

>>659409

There is a difference in studying for a religion major and for a theology major.

>>659625

The drawing is apostle Paul at Ephesus, not the 391 Christian riots in Alexandria.

>>659623

>This is nothing.

Society and first and foremost academia has totally lost its moral compass. I doubt there is a single university president or dean in all of Jewmerica who is even remotely Christian. F.e. the West has plunged Syria into a 7-year-long civil war and nobody even bothers to protest. If you think amorality will last you long in this age of rapid technological progress you need to revisit the first five books of the OT.

>>659311

>>659311

>Believe me, the historical Jesus is very different than the Jesus of the Gospels.

'WHO IS A LIAR BUT HE THAT DENIETH THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST?

>>659302

>Very little teology or in depth study of the Bible

>yoga, hinduism, introduction to buddhism, etc…

I am actually ok with this. They would only teach lies about the Bible and Christianity anyway.

Much better if biblical interpretation and teology are out of their grasp.

>>659302

These aren't seminaries or theological colleges, these are courses on the history and theory of religion. So it's obvious you're going to have a ton on non-Christian religions. I don't see a problem with most of the courses. It would entirely depend on how they're taught.

Return the university to its former proper role, as an arm of the Church.

And also, don't burn the books.

the harvard courses look clown tier, but the princeton religion courses look really good. what's the problem? "christian ethics and modern society" with eric gregory is an extremely good course; super wholesome and actually christian.