This news…
It’s everything that I hate about liberal Jews and Ivy League progressives stacked into one giant shit sandwich.
Harvard University names a devout ATHEIST as its new head chaplain who describes himself as ‘humanist rabbi’: Ivy League school says it’s catering to the 40% of students who are NOT religious or agnostic
Harvard University has chosen a devout atheist and ‘humanist chaplain’ to lead the Ivy League school founded by Puritans to educate their clergy with the motto ‘Truth for Christ and the Church.’
Greg Epstein, 44, who was raised in a reformed Jewish household in Queens, New York, was named president of the chaplains for the religious community at the school after serving as Harvard’s ‘humanist chaplain’ since 2005.
Epstein, 44, was raised in Flushing, Queens, as a self-described ‘assimilated and disinterested reform Jew’ in the nation’s most diverse borough.
In 2005, Epstein received ordination as a Humanist Rabbi from the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism.
He holds a B.A. (Religion and Chinese) and an M.A. (Judaic Studies) from the University of Michigan and a Masters of Theological Studies from the Harvard Divinity School
There is no such thing as Secular Humanistic Judaism. The very idea is offensive.
The very first principle of Judaism is from our holiest prayer, the Shema:
Hear O’ Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.
Blessed is the name of His glorious kingdom for ever and ever.
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day. Impress them upon your children. Recite them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up. Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead, inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
If you don’t believe in God, you are not a Jew.
You might have grown up in a Jewish household.
You may be ethnically Ashkenazi.
But you are not a Jew.
A secular Jew is bullshit.
The very idea is offensive. It’s like saying “he’s a secular Muslim.”
Jewish means something. Secular Jew means nothing.
You like bagels and lox and understand Mel Brooks jokes, so the fuck what.
To call a secular atheist a Rabbi makes me want to burn his divinity school to the ground.
That Harvard hired him as their chaplain, honestly, is antisemitic. Propping up some fuck-useless non-Jew as the paragon of what Judaism is, because “he’s a Rabbi” is perverse.
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