Professor beaten; attackers cite KU creationism class

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

All right.

Rest of the thread to go as follows:

Members ignore attempts by a few Christian Conservatives to distance themselves from the incident, pointing out that a few bad apples ( ) don't mean all Christians are stupid or hypocrites.

Anti-religion fundamentalists say Christians (and religious people in general) are stupid and how it should be outlawed and all Christians persecuted for being stupid, hypocrites, and having their own beliefs.

Let the generalizations flow, gentlemen.







Aside: Prole, I don't really mean to indict you, since you won't use this incident to belabor all Christians. I am disappointed that you seem to know many religious hypocrites, and I acknowledge that those in the article are hypocrites themselves.

[Ldvs]

EDIT: Didn't read well enough, can a mod delete this post?

[Goofball]

What I find most disturbing about this thread is not the fact that a couple of morons beat a guy up in the name of Christ; there have been idiots doing that and worse for thousands of years. It's sad, but nevertheless it's old news.

What I find truly disturbing is that two people so far (one with whom I usually agree, and one with whom I almost never agree, but both of whom I respect) have gone so far as to say that the victim shares some of the blame for his being attacked, because he used words that Christians might disagree with.

That simply boggles the mind.

I know it's cliché, but I'll throw this one out there anyway: Does a woman who was dressed in extremely slutty/revealing clothes share any of the blame for her own rape because she was "asking for it?"

Think about it people.

As my old grandad was always so fond of saying: "Jesus wept..."

[Husar]

I agree, Alexander.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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While I -naturally- condemn the beating, the whole case seems a clash between two radical camps, common among them being their ultimate idiocy. The so-called creationist campaign against evolution is as stupid as the case of "evolutionists" who take a scientific problem as a faith or rather a counter-faith.


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[solypsist]

to be honest I'm mroe interested in the other questions rather than trying to indict a group that is obviously in the minority (if i just wanted to raise toches and pitvchforks i could just post a bunch off fred phelps articles).

so let's drop the christian bashing and instead look at the macro.

Let the generalizations flow, gentlemen.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

The macro, then?

People have been beating other people for saying unpopular things for a long time. I'm sure you could find at least one example for every year since such things were recorded. I think such incidents will continue; this is only interesting in that the beating coincides with a national hot-button issue.

Aside: reading the article, it sounds like the professor was planning a course at odds with what the Kansas State Board of Ed. was planning.

The class was added after the Kansas State Board of Education decided to include more criticism of evolution in science standards for elementary and secondary students.

One recent e-mail from Mirecki to members of a student organization referred to religious conservatives as "fundies," and said a course describing intelligent design as mythology would be a "nice slap in their big fat face." Mirecki has apologized for those comments.