Posted on 03/21/2013 5:22:21 PM PDT by markomalley
There was a local piece from the local news embedded in the original. Here is the original local news story.
Not a real loss for the student.....obviousely a degree from this POS university is worthless anyway.
The great Christian writer, C.S. Lewis - I’m sure you’ve read all his work- has a scene very much like this in his novel, ”That Hideous Strength”. What makes the scene effective is that Mark, the man being told to stomp on the picture of Christ, is not a believer. Yet he refuses to do it, and it is a turning point for him and for the novel.
One of the points that Lewis makes via the story, is that if you believe in Christ, then of course you won’t do it - and if you don’t believe, if Jesus was nothing, then why is the other person so intent on this symbolic degredation? Why bother?
What prevents the non-believing Mark from following orders is that he feels a twinge of human compassion for Jesus as ”a poor chap” who, if he had been at all real, had suffered enough. And that was why Mark, who up until this point in the book has been the worst sort of toady and sellout, cannot bring himself to stomp on the picture.
So it really doesn’t matter if the person who refuses to commit an obscene gesture is a Christian or a Hindu or an atheist. What matters is that they reject the obsenity.
I was just joking. Take a gander at the FR Religion forum sometimes (if you dare).
I’ll bet my farm (I don’t really have one) that people need to get their minds around not depending on these stupid, subversive, anti American, brainwashing institutions and put their resources into other institutions.
I wouldn’t give a dime not one dime to an institution who had a professor who taught this class on the payroll.
I know the implications, and I wouldn’t.
Why is any American giving any money to these places.
Lawsuit. Phooey, I wouldn’t waste a minute with these people, I wouldn’t even write them a letter. they are not worth the time, paper or ink. Certainly not the stamp.
Why are people keeping these schools in business?
That is the only controversy here.
Sorry, but the student and his attorney need to challenge that university and the professor. The first question that must be answered is “what are the educational objectives of this exercise?”
The next question is “How does this exercise conform to the objectives for the course and the course curriculum?”
After that, the university needs to describe how this exercise conforms to an educational objective in the textbook?”
And, finally, “What type of job or career does performing this exercise prepare the student to obtain”?
Failure to answer any of these questions satisfactorily take the exercise out of the educational realm and puts it into the political statement realm.
And, that’s NOT education, it’s indoctrination!!
DUH!
The headline should read:
Florida Student Opts to Continue Funding Anti American Institution
Subtitle: His Parents Concur
Yeah, but to what end?
It reminds me of the time when I was assigned to read a Native American folk tale in a graduate seminar in ENGLISH Lit. The professor had obviously set aside half of one session to discuss the crucial and pressing question of whether native american oral storytelling was a legitimate subject of study for us.
After a second I said sure, as long as I can do a paper this semester on Demons.
And she said no, that's a translation.
Why do the fine upstanding citizens of The Sunshine State hold still for this crap?!
So how about they continue the exercise by having
the students draw a picture of allah and stomp allover said picture?
bump
Paging Jay Sekulow— the ACLJ or Alliance Defense Fund needs to jump in on this case. Simply Outrageous-—
Thanks markomalley.
I agree with your comments. I can imagine the exercise as you’ve set it forth.
I’m a professor. I sometimes ask students to think about and discuss difficult topics. There is a big difference between asking students how they’d feel about stomping on the word ‘Jesus,’ and telling them to do so. Big difference.
How a student gets suspended for complaining about this or not doing the assignment is beyond me. If it’s a graded assignment, you give the kid an ‘F’ and move on. If it’s a class discussion - what is he being suspended for?
One of the purposes of higher education is to raise questions designed to challenge assumptions. I can think of a couple of times when I was in grad school I left class surprised there wasn’t blood on the floor - men yelling, women crying, women yelling, men crying - and this all took place in hard science classes! I can’t even begin to imagine what it would be like in a philosophy or sociology class...
I am sure they were stomping on Darwin, Margaret Sanger and Karl Marx too. not
Can’t say as I even encountered discussions regarding Sanger or Marx. Being a biologist I did run into Darwin, but not very much - all he did was plant a seed. Do you think modern rocketry students study Congreve, Tsiolkovsky, and Goddard? Maybe as background, but I think the technology has moved beyond what they can provide.
Does this need a {sarc tag?
LOT's of people have been fooled into assuming that those who adhere to MORMONism's teachings are Christian.
Just because the NAME of the religious organization is The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints.
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