College Professor Fired for not respecting bible

[SuperMonkey]

I like how Church and State are still "seperated" when professors try to get involved in student's religous beliefs.

-- FunBob

 

[SuperMonkey]

yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh...


"No comment", I take it?

 

[ShadowBoxing]

I like how Church and State are still "seperated" when professors try to get involved in student's religous beliefs.

-- FunBob

Well SWUI is not listed as a "public" institution on a particular college website I just visited (it's not listed as private either), so it may not fall under "The separation of church and state". While free speech is protected, in a private institution the ability to hire and fire at will is also protected. So if his boss wants him out of there for "denigration of the Bible", unfortunately that's his right.

 

[Apollo]

wtf?

 

[CristoTheSecond]

Why, you should be fired and banned for suggesting such a thing!
That's what that damnable heathen professor said to his poor students too!

It doesn't mean it's not going to come true.

Just means that it's SYMBOLIC...

 

[Kritish]

Well this is just too precious, Cristo is now trying to convince us that a rabbit eating its own **** is the same as chewing the cud. Oh and Cristo, I hope that there would be no such thing as "close enough" with the all powerful creator of the universe. At this point your forced with two explanations, either the Bible is not the divine word of god or god needs to hire an editor.

 

[teseract]

I always find it funny that people think that Revelations is literally about the end of days, when literally it isn't. It's literally about the Fall of Babylon, which has come and gone.

says who?

 

[Spider-X]

What the teacher said was really quite stupid. I somewhat agree with his statement...but i'm not going to be stupid enough to say that, and as a educated person...f#ck it, as any person, that the entire Bible shouldn't be taken as literal truth.

He is an authority figure and a teacher...he can't prove that the Bible isn't true, so he should teach things in an unbiased fashion and not start spouting crap that he can't prove.

You don't have to teach that it's true you idiot...so don't say stupid crap like that.

i don't think his firing had to do with his first amendment rights here...i think it had to do with making and idiotic blanket statement.

 

[CristoTheSecond]

Well this is just too precious, Cristo is now trying to convince us that a rabbit eating its own **** is the same as chewing the cud. Oh and Cristo, I hope that there would be no such thing as "close enough" with the all powerful creator of the universe. At this point your forced with two explanations, either the Bible is not the divine word of god or god needs to hire an editor.

Wait a minute...I said that it was essentially the same back then or SIMILAR enough to be defined as the same. Now, it's defined differently, but back then, it was similar enough to all fall under "chewing the cud".

 

[logansoldcigar]

Wait a minute...I said that it was essentially the same back then or SIMILAR enough to be defined as the same. Now, it's defined differently, but back then, it was similar enough to all fall under "chewing the cud".

wouldnt an all powerful and all knowing deity have made it clear. just to avoid confusion. and he is all knowing and omnipotent, surely he would know that it was gonna cause confusion?

 

[logansoldcigar]

Evidence. Like fitting all the animals of the earth on one boat.


Riiiiiight.

It might have been a T.A.R.D.I.S

you know, the inside resides in a different dimension, and therefore can occupy a greater area, and they could easily fit all the animals in.
Hell, Noah fits the bill as a timelord. funny hair n clothes, mystery ship that can fit all the woprlds animals, there food, and had a special room to store the crap.


well, its just a believable as the idea they fitted in a big boat

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

What the teacher said was really quite stupid.

What the teacher said was really quite true.

I somewhat agree with his statement...but i'm not going to be stupid enough to say that, and as a educated person...f#ck it, as any person, that the entire Bible shouldn't be taken as literal truth.

It's perfectly valid to say that it can't be taken as literal truth because that much we know 100% empirically for a fact.....because first of all, it doesn't PURPORT to be intended to be taken literally in it's entirety (big, big ), and next, it's full of mistakes and things that can't be true, like how there's no room for a man's body in the mouth of a whale, and how there are no such things as unicorns and yet it talks about unicorns.
Mmkay?

He is an authority figure and a teacher...he can't prove that the Bible isn't true, so he should teach things in an unbiased fashion and not start spouting crap that he can't prove.

Wrong. This is a double standard because professors constantly, every single day teach with opinion, and bias, things that can't be proven.
WoW, have you ever been to college? Do you, know what goes on there?

You don't have to teach that it's true you idiot...so don't say stupid crap like that.

He gave his opinion, and professors are free to do that, or should be.
You can't picture a teacher making an aside about how video games'll rot yer brain, or how reality TV is garbage?!
None of that can be proven, it's opinion, but the teacher doesn't have to step on itsy-bitsy tiny liddle widdle egg shells and say IMO after every single god damned declarative sentence he uses.

GOD, grow up, society.

i don't think his firing had to do with his first amendment rights here...i think it had to do with making and idiotic blanket statement.

It has to do with how disingenuous Christians are about the fact that they really do want to force their beliefs on everyone else.
They're totalitarian at heart, because they feel they have a personal connection with the guy who's in charge of the universe, and even though THAT can't be proven, they "know" they're right, no matter what.
So of course the rest of us have to fall in line and respect their false God.

It's a miserable state of things.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

says who?

Says Biblican historians and the people who wrote it. The entire book is chock full of references to important places and architecture in Babylon. Heck, even the Beast itself seems akin to certain statues unearthed in the city. Top it off with the fact that it mentions the "****e of Babylon" and prophecizes it's fall, and you have your answer right there. Anything further is interpretation, usually with personal bias thrown in.

 

[Obi-Ron]

Why, you should be fired and banned for suggesting such a thing!
That's what that damnable heathen professor said to his poor students too!

Yeah, here's where the hypocrisy comes in.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

hardcore

 

[Obi-Ron]

Forget that "Do unto others" jive, the real golden rule is: Do as I say, not as I do.