Don Moynihan: Having legislators grill university leaders on their familiarity and alignment with scripture seems less than ideal

Having legislators grill university leaders on their familiarity and alignment with scripture seems less than ideal

A congressman asking about whether a university leader wants their institution to be "cursed by God" seems sort of insane/newsworthy, but it did not make it into any of the three top stories in the Times about the hearing.

Abrahamic faiths suck justification has been really putting out a lot of material.

Christianity. This is an extremely Christian reading of the passage. The fact that it's not being read/recited in the original language is a hint, as is the conflation of the nation promised to Abram with the state of Israel, as is the incorrect use of the name Abraham.

This is an extremely fundamentalist Christian reading of the passage at that.

are you defending Hamas and the Taliban and Netanyahu and the rest his party and the one to his right ? Then stop defending them on my post

If you think Netanyahu does what he does because of religious conviction, I have a bridge to sell you.

It’s as you think this is the only thing I’m talking about.

However you wanna call the 3 that are always central to conflicts rn.

And if you think they aren’t all at each other’s throats at least in part because they believe how they believe, don’t know what to tell ya. No piece of land would be worth this kind of loss to me.

Your thought process is totally off on this and almost ties into right wing rhetoric that the extremist examples represent the mass.

They’re very different entities. It’d be as accurate to say this is about ukelele great Israel Kamakawiwo’ole.

If I can communicate well enough to know what is included in this phrase, then I achieved a meaning that was intended. And the only criticism is from people who are prob religious yet knew what I was talking about anyway.

I’m commenting not so much on you but more the original reading by the congressman. Sorry, your post was poorly drafted so I wasn’t quite sure what you were on about.

The NYT is desperate to pretend that conservatives are the serious grown-ups in the room despite any and all evidence to the contrary.

Only newsworthy when a Dem congressperson slips up (and apologizes). Depending on religion/skintone of the Democrat, the fact of the slipup will be noted (“made comments that critics called biased against —“) for years after the actual quote or apology ceases to be mentioned

Rather, The Times will hire another reporter for the “faith” beat, to show the public they respect right wing religious kooks.

Only the right wing Christians count as "religious." Anyone else is just emphemeral.

To be fair I wish every Ivy League college was cursed by God. Preferably with unquenchable flame that devours every building but I’ll take 8.0 earthquake or underground sinkhole in a pinch. Hey even Bubonic plague, not a fan but it’d be worth it for a world free of Browns Columbias Harvards et al

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it's a bad newspaper

Sorry, Congress members are quoting fables now?

I honestly don't think we should be taking the Times as if it's not a conservative news source and part of their propaganda machine at this point, considering a lot of what they published this year

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." —Susan B. Anthony

The keywords in the Times motto are “fit to print”. Turns out everything you mights actually want to know isn’t fit. 🤷‍♀️

Not the congressman thinking like he's in the Middle Ages 😭

They were too busy checking their in boxes for another juicy screed from BFF/'source' Chris Rufo to have bothered to watch the hearing closely.

Psst . . . the media is on the "burn the witch" side led by the Congresscritter . . .

The top story in the Times should be about how this congressman was deposed after this. Wait, that didn't happen?

New card game idea. Spoken in Congress or the Spanish Inquisition?

Genuinely hard to think of anything worse for the Jews

And yet some major organizations like the ADL are down with working with these guys.

No sir of course we don’t want plagues of frogs on our campus

Tbh that'd be a blessing. Tastes like chicken.

But the texture is like undercooked chicken. 3/10

Our undergraduate cafeterias are looking into the potential of frog-protein based sloppy joes.

I heard Cicada Burgers are going to be all the rage this year. Double Brood Burger.

Fried legs taste like chicken shrimp. Big fan😁✌️

Amphibians are seriously endangered Anything that helps the frog populations should be considered

This is why I am not questioned by these panels. "Plagues of frogs you say?" *Grabs camera and macro lenses....*

I thought frogs plural was ambiguous and it could just be one frog who was really a dick.

I mean... this is NYC, if they outcompeted the rats, shit. Maybe we SHOULD slaughter a goat for Moloch Ba'al.

This is nuts man

a much better reasoned response than what Shafik said

I seem to remember something about religious tests in the Constitution.

I really need there to be a new position in congress in which it is someone's job to STRIKE A GONG every time someone does something this for the foreseeable future.

BONG

That was the only correct answer in this situation.

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