College Professor Fired for not respecting bible

[Wilhelm-Scream]

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

Dude, I hate Christianity. But for the past 2 weeks or so, it has seemed like reasons keep dropping into my lap to hate it "more and more each day".

I have a steady-rollin', consistent hatred of it....but I was noting reasons to hate it "more" than in the past. See?


Also, please don't take it upon yourself to make my HATE red.
It's more of a blazing orange/copper/purple/green-gray kind of HATE.

 

[huskerwebhead]

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

And me. I have to cross the river to go to work there.

 

[Logan's Runt]

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

Hey shut up, we had homosexual marriage for like 20 hours.

 

[sinewave]

And me. I have to cross the river to go to work there.

always a depressing drive, unless you're going to the adult emporium.

Hey shut up, we had homosexual marriage for like 20 hours.

i was wondering how long that lasted.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

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.

Links, please?

 

[huskerwebhead]

always a depressing drive, unless you're going to the adult emporium.

No point in even going there now with Dr. John's in town.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

Hey shut up, we had homosexual marriage for like 20 hours.

The neo-cons in the area rioted like rampaging zombies, crucified the guys who made the laws, and ate their brains, didn't they?

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Links, please?

All that stuff goes on, so I'm sure it's true, but you do have to ask for proof with Cell Dog, because just yesterday he blatantly lied to everyone here...blatantly tried to misrepresent groups of people, making statements about them without actually looking up any facts about them, and he has yet to apologize for lying to everyone here.

So you'd better watch him because now we know that when he's passionate about something, he'll completely lie in order to try and make his point.

 

[Logan's Runt]

No point in even going there now with Dr. John's in town.

I love Dr. Johns! They're selection of lingerie and such is quite good.

The neo-cons in the area rioted like rampaging zombies, crucified the guys who made the laws, and ate their brains, didn't they?

Pretty much, but not before two boys got their marriage on.

 

[Leto Atrides]

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

Half of Christendom doesn't take it completely literally.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

This guy was fired because he doesn't believe flying horse-scorpions with long, flowing hair live in the center of the Earth, and said so.

That is the horror of tyrranical Christianity.
They will try to take away your livelihood if you don't believe that flying horse-scorpions with long, flowing hair live in the center of the Earth and say so in front of students.

That's pretty scary.

 

[sinewave]

No point in even going there now with Dr. John's in town.

true dat!

All that stuff goes on, so I'm sure it's true, but you do have to ask for proof with Cell Dog, because just yesterday he blatantly lied to everyone here...blatantly tried to misrepresent groups of people, making statements about them without actually looking up any facts about them, and he has yet to apologize for lying to everyone here.

So you'd better watch him because now we know that when he's passionate about something, he'll completely lie in order to try and make his point.

that's exactly why i called him out. he's not the most factually inclined poster here.

I love Dr. Johns! They're selection of lingerie and such is quite good.

that it is.

 

[Memphis Slim]

those sound made-up.

Of course they would, to you. You just don't pay attention to this stuff.

 

[Memphis Slim]

And it is indeed so absurd that people would make these kind of rules, that it does sound made up.

 

[EdRyder]

Flying-Horse-Scorpions????
Man,either I need to read this "Bible" or Wilhelm needs to lay off the Kool Keith

 

[Hole Shot]

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.

Wow! The people that made this decision would burn some of the professors I had at the stake.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

See how he just ignores the fact that he's been caught making up facts to support his position?

I can't tell if it's more hilarious or sad.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Flying-Horse-Scorpions????
Man,either I need to read this "Bible" or Wilhelm needs to lay off the Kool Keith

You need to read the Bible, to see that NO one should believe it's all literally true and that this man shouldn't be FIRED for saying so, he should be COMMENDED for dispensing sound education

Revelations 9:5-11


9:5 They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person.

9:6 In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

9:7 The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people's faces.

9:8 They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.

9:9 They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.

9:10 They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.

9:11 They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon," but in Greek, he has the name "Apollyon."


Maybe we should PM Abaddon and ask him to sic his Locusts off of us. Though, I would like to catch one to get it's breastplate!
If you believe that's literally true, you're effing nuts.

 

[sinewave]

Of course they would, to you. You just don't pay attention to this stuff.

back them up with links, then.

See how he just ignores the fact that he's been caught making up facts to support his position?

I can't tell if it's more hilarious or sad.

he's the not-so-artful-dodger.

 

[Memphis Slim]

Links, please?

http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/200...aims-to-be-the-guardian-of-religious-liberty/

http://catholicleague.org/annualreport.php?year=2003&id=85

 

[sinewave]

http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/200...aims-to-be-the-guardian-of-religious-liberty/

http://catholicleague.org/annualreport.php?year=2003&id=85

do you have links to sites that aren't completely and utterly biased?

 

[EdRyder]

I have read it,I was jokin ..Who can remember all that crazy in Revelations.
Taken as literally true it all sounds like a terrible acid trip.
However even as a non believer,I always find allegorical interpretations far more interesting than any literal translation

 

[Mr Sparkle]

no one here surprised that a black man is reading "stoptheaclu.com"?
no one?

 

[Moviefan2k4]

I personally consider this incident a victory in the favor of Christians. Disbelievers all over the globe have influenced the public into accepting a "post-Christian" world, and with this guy's termination, the Bible has finally been treated with the reverence it deserves. By saying his students shouldn't take the Bible literally, this man was, in effect, calling God a liar, and I'm happy a few students had the courage and bravery to stand for the faith.

 

[EdRyder]

"Courage" and "bravery" to deprive this man of his rights?