O'Donnell's not the only one into Witchcraft ...
Meanwhile, more tea party news comes to us via Politics Daily.
Beau Biden, Joe's son, told CNN yesterday that Christine O'Donnell "should be taken seriously...my party is taking her seriously." O'Donnell is seeking Joe Biden's old Senate seat, a seat that many Democrats wanted Beau to go after, but he deferred, much to their chagrin.
Now the Democrats have Christopher Coons, the self-described Marxist, and not exactly what you would call the strongest candidate the Democrats could have hoped for. By way of example, days ago Coons ridiculously said that serving in the US Senate would be a "great way for me to apply the principles and values that were honed at YDS [Yale Divinity School]," where in 1994 he scored a Masters in Religion with a specialty in ethics.
Via The American Spectator, here is what appears on the YDS curriculum:
Yale Divinity School Courses and Required Reading
• Witchcraft and Witch Hunting: Specifically listed as REL 717: Witchcraft and Witch Hunting, the "REL" presumably stands for "Religion." Apparently Christine O'Donnell's main offense when it comes to dabbling in witchcraft in high school on a date is some sort of Ruling Class snobbery that she didn't go to Yale Divinity School, where witchcraft has been quite officially part of the school's curriculum. The very same school from which Chris Coons insists he has taken his values....
• Queer Worship. You read that right. The formal name for this course is REL 786, Liturgy and Gender (Queer Worship). Queer Worship, you see, stands for…stands for…well, let's just say the course description says in the wonderfully baroque style of academia that the course offers students like Mr. Coons once was "the opportunity to reflect critically on how ….queer theories and theologies are impacting how Christian worship is performed and reflected upon."....
• Feminist/Womanist/Gendered Theologies:This course is listed as "REL 749." It is designed, the course description says, "to formulate a robust theological understanding of today's theopolitical issues" by "using feminist, womanist, and ethnic gendered theologies." Womanist theology? That would be? A religious movement focusing on how exactly to liberate -- there's that pesky Marxist word again -- African women in America. Drawn from feminist and liberation theology, there appears to be not a word of Witchcraft 101 or Queer Worship in this course. ....
• Introduction to Christian Ethics II:Yet another opportunity here in "REL 715" for Coons to study up on his favorites. Black Liberation Theology guru James Cone is mandatory reading here. Values taught in the reading for a class on Christianity? In God of the Oppressed Cone salutes the values of Marx in a chapter called "Marx and the Sociology of Knowledge" while also musing about "Jesus is Black and the "Meaning of Liberation."
Good to know that all this training in ethics may be coming with Coons to Washington. No wonder Beau wants the Dems to take O'Donnell seriously. The crown of saying "nutty things" will be slowly passing from O'Donnell to Coons on this one.
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May '10
Re: O'Donnell's not the only one into Witchcraft ...
Yikes. That's God and Man at Yale today.
Aug '10
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divinity schools are, along with schools of education, full of PC pomo nonsense. for instance, among the only people i've heard talk about Freudianism in recent years are divinity school folks. on the other hand, this can be mixed with some generally excellent scholarship. for instance, one of the queer theology folks at Yale, Dale Martin, has a bunch of stuff that is basically wishful thinking (as he's more or less admitted in retrospect) but his Corinthian Body is also really good by any standard as his Intro to New Testament course.
Jun '10
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These days, the odds are that the subjects above are presented in an admiring way, rather than in a cautionary way. Because pointing out the dangers of these things would be too "intolerant." Can't have that.
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I wrote a piece last year which required me to research some of the more PC courses at various colleges, and here are some highlights: Sociology of Heterosexuality (Yale), Philosophy and Star Trek (Georgetown), and Whiteness: The Other Side of Racism (Mount Holyoke). I have to say, though, even these pale in comparison to what Coons was learning at YDS! William F Buckley would have had a field day!
May '10
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That one could be good, actually. I took a course called "Philosophy of The Twilight Zone." It was brilliant. We would watch a thoughtful episode of The Twilight Zone, then my professor would challenge us with philosophical questions contained therein while introducing us to perspectives from various figures of history. The class would openly debate, establish a few agreements and raise many further questions.
The purpose of a philosophy course should be to train students in critical thinking and feed their curiosity with introductions to great thinkers and concepts. It should not be fill the students' heads with "soundbites" from popular philosophers to inanely regurgitate in articles and dinner party discussions.
May '10
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Hey, I gotta book titled "Forbidden Rites: A Fifteenth Century Necromancer's Manual". Also treasure my copy of the Necronomicon. Though learned not to put in on the same shelves with Bibles. Keeps you up all night. My brother (Regulus Arcturus Smith) studied the history of Alchemy.
Still alarmed that the podcasts haven't closed with some Sinatra (that wicked witchcraft...) or at least the theme to Bewitched.
Jun '10
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To boldly go where no man has gone before. I guess that means to the split infinitive and beyond.
May '10
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Cute, but hopefully O'Donnell's proxies will resist the temptation to get into a he's-weirder-than-than-our-candidate contest. Don't touch this stuff, Christine. Hammer on spending 24/7.
May '10
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Where's my copy of the Malleus Maleficarum when you need it.
Mr K Smith - What no Unaussprechlichen Kulten by Von Junzt, or Paracelsus? Pity I must go, there is a Shoggoth knocking at the door (of perception)...