Torah Philosophy

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{{cquote|''You are torn apart by guilt about all the lives you've destroyed... Tell me, atheist criminal, how many rotten bodies are your in basement? How many corpses in your back yard? How many little boys have you raped? Confess, atheist criminal. Tell me immediately.''|||Jacob Stein to an anonymous atheist commentator, berating him for not having an imaginary friend<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150415110052/http://www.torahphilosophy.com/2009/12/what-scientists-are-really-doing.html?showComment=1262112979820#c3973741599225225759</ref>}}

'''Torah Philosophy''' was an [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] blog run by '''Jacob Stein''', who blogs under the name "jewish philosopher."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130531151110/http://www.torahphilosophy.com/2013/03/my-book-is-ready.html</ref>. He stopped blogging in Friday, January 25, 2013.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160317160604/http://www.torahphilosophy.com/2013/01/the-blog-is-closed.html</ref> Two months later, (Wednesday, March 20, 2013) he released a book, ''The Jewish Manifesto'', "a summary of everything written in this blog, condensing it as clearly and as concisely as possible.".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130531151110/http://www.torahphilosophy.com/2013/03/my-book-is-ready.html</ref> 

==Unbiased views?==
Stein [[Sarcasm|is really fond of atheists]], arguing that [[Atheophobia|atheists are all]] [[Psychological projection|selfish and/or murderous]], and that primarily atheist societies are prone to committing mass killings.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150415110049/http://www.torahphilosophy.com/2011/05/ethics-from-empathy.html?showComment=1306254244459#c8928460467589723505</ref> However, Stein is fine with mass killings when they're committed by Jewish societies - in a post entitled "I Heart [[Genocide]]," he defended the Israelites' massacre of the Midianites in [[Numbers]] on the grounds that the victims were all evil and deserved to die.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120712093127/http://www.torahphilosophy.com/2012/04/i-heart-genocide.html</ref>

He also says that [[No True Scotsman|no atheist "truly"]] believes in [[evolution]]: if they did, then, according to Stein, they would all celebrate [[global warming]] and would advocate replacing law enforcement with animal control.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120625012149/http://www.torahphilosophy.com/2011/07/two-proofs-that-atheists-are-lying.html</ref>

In addition to his disdain for atheists, Stein is a [[homophobe]], comparing male [[homosexuality]] to heroin usage,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120129021351/http://www.torahphilosophy.com/2011/08/gay-marriage.html</ref> promoting the death penalty for gays<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120901021954/http://www.torahphilosophy.com/2010/10/straight-rights.html</ref> and is opposed to sexual equality.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120603005754/http://www.torahphilosophy.com/2012/05/judaism-and-feminism.html</ref>

In a removed page, Stein claimed that Muslims [[Islamophobia|are "the greatest challenge to world peace today"]] and that it is necessary to "struggle in any way possible to control and suppress this Satanic cult".<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20140805112152/http://www.torahphilosophy.com/2006/09/islam-form-of-satanism_10.html Torah Philosophy: Islam: a form of Satanism]</ref>

==Orthodox Judaism==
"It remains my belief that any honest, sober person who reviews the evidence will quickly be convinced of the truth of Orthodox Judaism," says Stein.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150415110053/http://www.torahphilosophy.com/2009/12/what-scientists-are-really-doing.html</ref> When it was pointed out to him how few people convert to Orthodox Judaism, he replied that "most people are liars and/or addicts."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150415110058/http://www.torahphilosophy.com/2009/12/what-scientists-are-really-doing.html?showComment=1261764594274#c8559302834130296513</ref>

==Fundies Say the Darndest Things==
The blog has the distinction of being [[FSTDT]]'s go-to choice for Jewish fundie quotes.<ref group=note>A complete listing of FSTDT's quotes from the blog and its comments section can be found [https://fstdt.com/?domain=torahphilosophy.com here].</ref> Stein, or at least, someone purporting to be him, has sometimes posted in the comments section. "Is this website called std.net because so many people here have std's,{{sic}} most probably late stage syphillis which has destroyed their brains, as it did the the{{sic}} late, great atheist [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Freidrich Nietzsche]]?" he asks.<ref>http://fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=88612&Page=3#1449181</ref>

==Stopped clock==
[[Stopped clock|Even him of all people can sometimes be right]]. Stein is not fond of [[Stalin]], even though it's for atheophobic reasons.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160404175544/http://www.torahphilosophy.com/2007/05/argument-from-ego.html Torah Philosophy: The Argument from Ego]</ref>
Another good point, in his book "The Jewish Manifesto", he called [[Richard Nixon]] "probably our most dishonest president".<ref>[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz50wW138KcGQUtxa3Y2ZEtBNDg/view ''The Jewish Manifesto''], page 9</ref>

==See also==
* [[Ovadia Yosef]]
==Notes==
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==References==
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