College Professor Fired for not respecting bible

[zanos]

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/09/22/teacher_college_fired_me_for_bible_lesson/7546/

RED OAK, Iowa, 22 (UPI) -- An Iowa teacher says he was fired by a community college for telling students that they should not take the Bible as literal truth.

Steve Bitterman said that Southwestern Community College dismissed him Thursday, two days after some students complained about his remarks, The Des Register reported.

"I'm just a little bit shocked myself that a college in good standing would back up students who insist that people who have been through college and have a master's degree, a couple actually, have to teach that there were such things as talking snakes or lose their job," Bitterman said.

Southwestern President Barbara Crittenden said that the school could not comment on personnel matters. But she denied that Bitterman’s free speech rights had been violated.

Bitterman taught a Western Civilization course at the Red Oak campus that was telecast to students at the Osceola campus. He said that some Osceola students apparently thought he was denying their religious beliefs.

 

[Addendum]

What a crock of ****

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

God this s*** gets old.
It seems like there's a conspiracy to make me hate Christianity more and more every day.

 

[huskerwebhead]

God this s*** gets old.
It seems like there's a conspiracy to make me hate Christianity more and more every day.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

hahaha hilarious.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

The best part is the professor's name is Bitterman

 

[turtlefocker]

If there was any justice Zeus would pop a lightning bolt in his ass.

 

[rdh007]

I'm pretty sure taking the Bible literally is impossible if you can actually read and comprehend.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

but...the Christians!!!! there's a war on them!
Bill O'reilly told me so.
they have a right to....uh...what exactly were they protecting here?

 

[Logan's Runt]

Damnit, Iowa.

 

[sinewave]

of course everyone's a descendant of one dude and his rib. duh!

 

[Mr Sparkle]

of course everyone's a descendant of one dude and his rib. duh!

you know the awesomest part about the bible is that there's a dude that had sex with his rib.

that just takes it all!

goooooo god!

 

[sinewave]

you know the awesomest part about the bible is that there's a dude that had sex with his rib.

that just takes it all!

goooooo god!

in all fairness, i've heard it was one hell of a ****able rib.

 

[zanos]

I'm pretty sure taking the Bible literally is impossible if you can actually read and comprehend.

The bible has nothing to do with reading and comprehending.

 

[DBella]

The bible has nothing to do with reading and comprehending.

I am not comprehending what I am reading.

 

[Memphis Slim]

God this s*** gets old.
It seems like there's a conspiracy to make me hate Christianity more and more every day.

Pleeez........You never needed a reason.

 

[Electrix]

Its things like that which make me wish this man had some power

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atTSwau9fwM

 

[D4rkShaDoWz]

*tsk tsk tsk*

 

[Hoedowned]

in all fairness, i've heard it was one hell of a ****able rib.

I'm sure he got a ribjob too.

 

[Victarion]

About time.

---Morzan

 

[Memphis Slim]

What have we seen?
Consider that only a few months ago we saw a Nativity scene removed from a showcase in Simmons Elementary School, in Horsham, Pa. Why? The scene “was too overt in its religious significance,” according to a school district spokeswoman, quoted in the Washington Times. In New York City, 1,200 public schools were permitted to display symbols of non-Christian religions during the Christmas season, the Jewish menorah and Muslim star and crescent for Ramadan, for example. Meanwhile, noted Gene Edward Veith in World magazine, Nativity scenes were “verboten.”
City Hall in Cranston, R.I., was calm as the grounds sported an “inflatable Santa, snowmen, a menorah, a 4-foot-tall angel with lights and 15 plastic pink flamingoes wearing Santa hats,” reported the Times. But then a Jewish man raised the hackles of the ACLU when he “put up a Nativity scene in honor of his deceased Christian wife.” Students at Clover Creek Elementary School in Tacoma, Wash., were permitted to sing a “Hanukkah song that includes lyrics about the ‘mighty miracle’ of Israel’s ancient days,” but were not allowed to sing the word Christmas in a concert. Music teacher Mark Denison replaced the word Christmas with the word winter, reported the New Tribune, so that the “lyrics in Dale Wood’s ‘Carol From an Irish Cabin’” were made to read: “The harsh wind blows down the mountains, and blows a white winter to me.” We see much the same thing happening at Easter, as David Limbaugh documents in his book Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity. In Persecution, we see high school officials in Hampton, Va., allowing an “Easter Can Drive” to raise funds for a local YMCA, but only if the project name was censored and cleansed into the “Spring Can Drive.” In Wisconsin, Kentucky, Illinois and Hawaii, we have seen Good Friday challenged as an occasion when the state can give workers time off for religious observances. In San Francisco, Oklahoma City, and the Mojave National Preserve, we have seen legal challenges to the display of crosses on public land.

And anyone who violates these crazy rules could be terminated.


Now I'm not saying that teacher should have been fired. He should not have. But now that the tables have turned in this "ONE" instance( Believe me....I'm as shocked as you guys), you guys are crying the blues. Basically doing what you accuse Christians of doing.

This is funny.

 

[sinewave]

I'm sure he got a ribjob too.

you disgust me.



:heart:

 

[sinewave]

What have we seen?
Consider that only a few months ago we saw a Nativity scene removed from a showcase in Simmons Elementary School, in Horsham, Pa. Why? The scene “was too overt in its religious significance,” according to a school district spokeswoman, quoted in the Washington Times. In New York City, 1,200 public schools were permitted to display symbols of non-Christian religions during the Christmas season, the Jewish menorah and Muslim star and crescent for Ramadan, for example. Meanwhile, noted Gene Edward Veith in World magazine, Nativity scenes were “verboten.”
City Hall in Cranston, R.I., was calm as the grounds sported an “inflatable Santa, snowmen, a menorah, a 4-foot-tall angel with lights and 15 plastic pink flamingoes wearing Santa hats,” reported the Times. But then a Jewish man raised the hackles of the ACLU when he “put up a Nativity scene in honor of his deceased Christian wife.” Students at Clover Creek Elementary School in Tacoma, Wash., were permitted to sing a “Hanukkah song that includes lyrics about the ‘mighty miracle’ of Israel’s ancient days,” but were not allowed to sing the word Christmas in a concert. Music teacher Mark Denison replaced the word Christmas with the word winter, reported the New Tribune, so that the “lyrics in Dale Wood’s ‘Carol From an Irish Cabin’” were made to read: “The harsh wind blows down the mountains, and blows a white winter to me.” We see much the same thing happening at Easter, as David Limbaugh documents in his book Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity. In Persecution, we see high school officials in Hampton, Va., allowing an “Easter Can Drive” to raise funds for a local YMCA, but only if the project name was censored and cleansed into the “Spring Can Drive.” In Wisconsin, Kentucky, Illinois and Hawaii, we have seen Good Friday challenged as an occasion when the state can give workers time off for religious observances. In San Francisco, Oklahoma City, and the Mojave National Preserve, we have seen legal challenges to the display of crosses on public land.

And anyone who violates these crazy rules could be terminated.


Now I'm not saying that teacher should have been fired. He should not have. But now that the tables have turned in this "ONE" instance( Believe me....I'm as shocked as you guys), you guys are crying the blues. Basically doing what you accuse Christians of doing.

This is funny.

those sound made-up.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

This might surprise some of you, the rest of you have been to Iowa.

 

[sinewave]

This might surprise some of you, the rest of you have been to Iowa.

true. it's right across the river from me.