College Professor Fired for not respecting bible

[Logan's Runt]

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.

You sound like Osama.

 

[Franklin Richards]

Why can't I smoke pot? I'm a Rastafarian!!!


The teacher better count his lucky stars that he didn't say anything about the Hawkeyes. He would have been burnt at the stake by the community.

 

[Moviefan2k4]

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

What about depriving the students of their rights, to display faith in Christ anywhere they please, be it public or private? We are guaranteed freedom to choose a religion in this country, not a freedom to attack religion in public, or say it can't be adhered to. If the Muslims, Orthodox Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists are left alone, then why persecute the Christians? Why single us out?

 

[EdRyder]

You are guaranteed freedom of religion.
And this man has freedom of speech
Its called "equal rights"
No one deprived students their rights here-lay off the kool aid

 

[PLAS]

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.

would you rather they also torture and burn this professor too?

 

[Moviefan2k4]

would you rather they also torture and burn this professor too?

Not at all. People are allowed to believe what they want, but to openly and publicly disrespect the foundation of a faith that over 70% of Americans believe in...that's just cruel. Organizations like the ACLU have made a career of disrespecting Christ in favor of everything else. That teacher's dimissal was completely deserved. You can think what you want, but there's a line between "free speech" and true intolerance (not just the crap spewed by liberals). This guy just crossed that line.

 

[EdRyder]

So we all have free speech-except when it comes to the bilbe and christ?

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Not at all. People are allowed to believe what they want, but to openly and publicly disrespect the foundation of a faith that over 70% of Americans believe in...that's just cruel. Organizations like the ACLU have made a career of disrespecting Christ in favor of everything else. That teacher's dimissal was completely deserved. You can think what you want, but there's a line between "free speech" and true intolerance (not just the crap spewed by liberals). This guy just crossed that line.

DUDE
Are you an act?!
'Cause.......


The idea is, he says what he believes, the students may disagree.
The teacher stating his beliefs does not in ANY way "deprive the students of their rights".


Which is more "INTOLERANT"?

Saying you don't think the Bible can't be taken literally, and then everyone is perfectly free to disagree.

or

Firing someone because they don't believe exactly what you believe and say so?


This attitude of yours is horrifying.

The man was fired from his job, and may have trouble paying bills, surviving, for all we know, because he doesn't believe in flying horse-scorpions with lion's teeth and long flowing hair, and he said so.


If we're going to start firing people for saying they don't believe in bulls*** myths and Medusas and Unicorns and Bigfoot, that is one repulsive world you're trying to build there.

 

[Moviefan2k4]

It's very simple: if you want people to respect your faith, then respect theirs in turn. Tolerance goes both ways, and that means if you want people to respect someone's right to trust Buddha over Christ, then respect their right to do the reverse. An instructor, in a position of authority and influence, blatantly and publicly disrespected Christ and the Bible. That's despicable.

 

[Argyle of Sock]

That is rediculous and insulting. In fact, it's rediculousness calls to mind when the Indiana legislature tried to pass a bill saying that pi was exactly 3.2.




It's that stupid.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Tolerance goes both ways

So you're saying that I should actively try to get the people at my work who talk about Jesus and who witness to me, fired?

I couldn't do it. That's so Nazi and Fascist, to try and silence and punish people just for being themselves.

Why is it that I can co-exist with people who believe really stupid things without ****ing with their livelihoods and you have such a fascist approach to it?

 

[Themanofbat]

People are allowed to believe what they want, but to openly and publicly disrespect the foundation of a faith that over 70% of Americans believe in...that's just cruel.

If that's what you think "cruelty" is, then I think over "70% of Americans" need to grow a pair...

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

HEY!
Those 3 smileys were sadistic and that kind of brutality CAN NOT STAND!

 

[bunk]

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.

There's never just one instance on either side of an issue. And it's completely common place where I live for elementary schools to be packed with christian themes during christmas (with no other religions represented) and you'll never hear anything about it. It's regional.

 

[EdRyder]

It's very simple: if you want people to respect your faith, then respect theirs in turn. Tolerance goes both ways, and that means if you want people to respect someone's right to trust Buddha over Christ, then respect their right to do the reverse. An instructor, in a position of authority and influence, blatantly and publicly disrespected Christ and the Bible. That's despicable.

You have no clue

They let those Nazis march in Skokie because they have the right to do so-Why did they chose Skokie?=Because of all the Jews that live there

What do you know about faith in the face of intolerance
Clearly you cant even tolerate the WORDS from a college professor

 

[Themanofbat]

It's very simple: if you want people to respect your faith, then respect theirs in turn. Tolerance goes both ways, and that means if you want people to respect someone's right to trust Buddha over Christ, then respect their right to do the reverse. An instructor, in a position of authority and influence, blatantly and publicly disrespected Christ and the Bible. That's despicable.

I don't believe he "disrespected" the Bible, as you put it...

He simply told people to not take it so literal.

Big difference from "disrespect" and a mere "comment".

What's really despicable is that you actually think he should have been fired for stating an opinion in the land of the free.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha......

I have such a hard time distingushing the Muslims from the Christians these days...

 

[Moviefan2k4]

So you're saying that I should actively try to get the people at my work who talk about Jesus and who witness to me, fired?

I couldn't do it. That's so Nazi and Fascist, to try and silence and punish people just for being themselves.

Why is it that I can co-exist with people who believe really stupid things without ****ing with their livelihoods and you have such a fascist approach to it?

From what i read in that article, the instructor was fired for fltly saying "The Bible should not be taken literally". No mention was made of this being his opinion, or particular subjective viewpoint. As a result, the only thing we can honestly infer was that he was consciously insulting Christianity, with no regard to possible consequences.

 

[Themanofbat]

HEY!
Those 3 smileys were sadistic and that kind of brutality CAN NOT STAND!

When it warrants three smilies, it gets three smilies...

And what's being stated in this thread is a three smilie deal.

 

[PLAS]

Not at all. People are allowed to believe what they want, but to openly and publicly disrespect the foundation of a faith that over 70% of Americans believe in...that's just cruel. Organizations like the ACLU have made a career of disrespecting Christ in favor of everything else. That teacher's dimissal was completely deserved. You can think what you want, but there's a line between "free speech" and true intolerance (not just the crap spewed by liberals). This guy just crossed that line.

isn't depriving someone from their income for having different beliefs cruel too?

you do sound very intolerant, though

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

From what i read in that article, the instructor was fired for fltly saying "The Bible should not be taken literally". No mention was made of this being his opinion, or particular subjective viewpoint. As a result, the only thing we can honestly infer was that he was consciously insulting Christianity, with no regard to possible consequences.

So should I try to have the people fired who tell me that Jesus loves me and and that the Bible is 100% true, since it goes both ways?

 

[PLAS]

From what i read in that article, the instructor was fired for fltly saying "The Bible should not be taken literally". No mention was made of this being his opinion, or particular subjective viewpoint. As a result, the only thing we can honestly infer was that he was consciously insulting Christianity, with no regard to possible consequences.

you do know that the bible should not be taken literally, right?

 

[Themanofbat]

From what i read in that article, the instructor was fired for fltly saying "The Bible should not be taken literally". No mention was made of this being his opinion, or particular subjective viewpoint. As a result, the only thing we can honestly infer was that he was consciously insulting Christianity, with no regard to possible consequences.

You really need to grow a pair... along with your narrow-minded bretheren...

 

[Themanofbat]

you do know that the bible should not be taken literally, right?

[Donald Trump]YOU'RE FIRED!!!![/Donald Trump]

 

[Moviefan2k4]

Actually, I happen to believe the Bible is meant as literal truth, unless a Scripture is explicitly described as a parable or illustrative example (such as Jesus' story about the farmer scattering seed).

 

[Themanofbat]

So should I try to have the people fired who tell me that Jesus loves me and and that the Bible is 100% true, since it goes both ways?

You could try, but please keep all the Jesus loves anal sex comments to a minimum, otherwise, you might get fired because you'll be insulting somebody's personal beliefs, and I hear they have no balls to take such abuse.