Danny: (I refuse to call you Reb Doniel – that method of address is reserved for the elders and leaders in my world and I don’t even let kids address me that way):
Who are you to tell us what needs to be done? You are but a newcomer, and you think you can give the gedolei ha-dor orders? This is an attitude I have seen many times on the part of questionable gerim and BTs who later leave the fold after taking far more than they give – and then they turn on us, screaming into the wind of cyberspace where only fellow malcontents listen to them.
As for historical revisionism, I have a degree in history from one of the finest universities in the USA, if not the world. What I was taught makes Artscroll children’s books pale in comparison when it comes to historical revisionism.
Humanism and Judaism are diametrically opposed. I understand studying useful subjects (and that includes plumbing as much as it does law) for parnosso, and if someone who is strong in his emunah likes to read Western literature in the beis hakisse, I understand that too. However, Western philosophy is not medicine or law or engineering – it is not chochmas hagoyim, but raw kefira.