Harry Potter and higher education
Harry Potter and higher education
Wtf?
I thought about leaving it at just the 'wtf' line, but then I read further down into the article and got to this;
"Wtf" doesn't do this justice, I have to spell it out. What the fuck are you talking about? Connections between theology and Harry fucking Potter? What, because both could be argued as fantasy? Or are you talking more about the literally endless "connections" between almost any freaking work of literature in the last two thousands years and theology?
It's called the human fucking condition, you moron! And this dumbass got accepted to Yale? Ever since mankind became aware of his own mortality every single thing we've ever done, written, painted, built, destroyed or worshiped has "connections" to theology. In short, everything about humanity itself has "connections" to theology.
I love how every generation or two people suddenly 'discover' something that has already been known since pretty much time immemorial. The human condition itself has "connections" to theology. Every man, woman and child that ever existed has "connections" to theology.
But it takes a Yale class in Harry fucking Potter to explain it to the current crop of morons that think they've discovered some new twist, some new wrinkle that no one before them has discovered. This, in and of itself, has "connections" to theology, as it's all connected to our mortality and understanding of it.
I got my GED over 20 years ago while in jail for drunk driving and even I can figure this shit out. These people have to go to Yale for the same thing?
Wtf?
I thought about leaving it at just the 'wtf' line, but then I read further down into the article and got to this;
"If somebody says this isn't worth a Yale class, I would say if we were just reading the Harry Potter books for their literary merit ... I would probably agree with them. [But] the lens of the Harry Potter books actually makes theology ... easier to understand," she said. "It's amazing how many connections you can draw between the theology that we're reading outside of class and the Harry Potter that we've known for 10 years."
"Wtf" doesn't do this justice, I have to spell it out. What the fuck are you talking about? Connections between theology and Harry fucking Potter? What, because both could be argued as fantasy? Or are you talking more about the literally endless "connections" between almost any freaking work of literature in the last two thousands years and theology?
It's called the human fucking condition, you moron! And this dumbass got accepted to Yale? Ever since mankind became aware of his own mortality every single thing we've ever done, written, painted, built, destroyed or worshiped has "connections" to theology. In short, everything about humanity itself has "connections" to theology.
I love how every generation or two people suddenly 'discover' something that has already been known since pretty much time immemorial. The human condition itself has "connections" to theology. Every man, woman and child that ever existed has "connections" to theology.
But it takes a Yale class in Harry fucking Potter to explain it to the current crop of morons that think they've discovered some new twist, some new wrinkle that no one before them has discovered. This, in and of itself, has "connections" to theology, as it's all connected to our mortality and understanding of it.
I got my GED over 20 years ago while in jail for drunk driving and even I can figure this shit out. These people have to go to Yale for the same thing?
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