Satan Wants Your Children to Go to College

Like many of you, I worry about what Satan is doing to stop the haredization of our youth. So does Cross-Eyed-Currents, the frummest group blog this side of the Internet ban.

Jonathan Rosenblum reveals Satan’s machinations, and I hope, strengthens us for victory in this crucial battle between good vs. evil (others might call that haredi vs. Modern Orthodox, but it’s the same thing) taking place.

Rosenblum writes,

Such a positive development could not proceed without the Satan fighting back. Not everyone was thrilled with the change of tone in the American Orthodox community. Already 15 years ago, articles started to appear warning parents of the danger of their children returning home “too frum.� [Editor’s note: Clearly there is no such thing!]
The rosh yeshiva of one post-high school yeshiva told me how a father threatened to take out a full-page ad in the New York Times labeling the yeshiva a “cult� if his son insisted on returning to Israel rather than taking his place in the freshman class of the father’s Ivy League alma mater. Never mind that the boy’s older brother, who had gone to the same college, was no longer observant. The Satan had other tricks as well.

Rosenblum is correct. Frankly, Satan can be found pretty much at every college (except Touro, of course). So who is the real “cult?� I would have to say any institution where Satan attends. But don’t look for a full page ad in the NY Times warning about that! No, of course not. The Modern Orthodox don’t worry about such things.

You know how they are.

Hat tip redundancy: Satan himself and Failed Messiah