Posted on 12/08/2005 8:26:48 AM PST by PJ-Comix
I'm sorry, but if Bubba and his buddy beat him, they sure would NOT have left his LOWER body alone, if ya get my drift!!!!
We stay above this sort of drivel, as we are ONLY concerned with showing the C's the error of THEIR ways....
--EvoDude
You oughta see what we do when we are pi$$ed!
He's not out of a job. Just out of a chairmanship--he's got tenure, and will be a problem for his school's admin for some time to come.
If it turns out that this indescreet professor of "religion" invented this thuggish beating tale, then we may be able to conclude that evolutionists are equally good at creating false hate crimes as they are at creating fraudulent feathered dinosaurs (committing a hasty generalization at this point, in the spirit of VadeRetro and Darwin Central, would conclude that..."They're all liars!!!!").
Maybe you can ask the grand master about that?
Given the outcome of this story, will you post Mirecki in the List-O-Links Hall of Shame?
(This "fundy's" above statement in no way condones or supports actual violence/hate toward any individual person or persons.)
your god speaks directly to you? and through you?
hmm...interesting
So who says silence condones violence? Silence might just mean absence from the computer for one of various reasons: busy schedule, illness, vacation. Do you seriously expect all FReepers to be online all the time? Some of us do have lives and things to do besides sit on FR all day. That's a pretty broad brush you're using to condemn everyone with. How open minded and tolerant of you.
It should be noted that he was beaten to within an inch of having to eat a hospital meal.
He resigned as department chair only, he still has tenure. He resigned under pressure from his colleagues, it should be noted.
I've suggested that the Women's Studies department should seek out a misogynist.
There were lots of people posting on that thread, including those I'm addressing. They weren't absent. Nor were you. I saw you objecting to people calling the perps Christians. I didn't see you object when your fellow Christian Publius6961 said I hope they catch those two incompetent rednecks for not even doing a simple assault properly!
On the same theme, from kimosabe31, who also likes to quote the BibleWhatever Mirecki got wasn't bad enough.
kimosabe31 was so excited at his own wit (or maybe his ability to type an entire sentence, period and all), he posted the same thing twice
Wherease F.J. Mitchell opined the cause was Dr. Miercki's appearanceA face almost everyone would love to stick a fist in. Questioning suspects will go something like this: Did you beat up the Proffessor? No but I would love to do so
Another helpful suggestion from Muzzle_emToo bad they didn't break his knees.
Some FReepers, like wardaddy, were distressed at their lack of empathyI'm supposed to feel bad I know. The fact that I don't makes me a long knife right?
FReeper Go Gordon opined that Mirecki got what was coming to him.
I don't know that I wish him well. If he is spewing and spreading anti-religious hatred, I say he deserved it. Yes we have free speach. But all that means is you won't get arrested. That doesn't entitle you to not pay a price for your actions.
FReeper LK44-40 compared Miercki's beating to another famous incident that brought joy to his heart.I am about as concerned about this fellow's little scrape as I am about that queer that got beaten up and tied to a fence on a chilly Wyoming night.
As a result, I refuse to interpret silence. In particular, the accusation I referred to was something like accusing, in post 678 about the lack of response to post 461.
SOMA is a student group for which Mirecki is faculty advisor. Apparently they quite like him. So I'd expect they would tend to take him at his word. I tend to take my friends at their word too.
Religious people make much worse comments about "godless atheists" every day: I'm really surprised that you have to be so old to remember "opiate of the masses" and all of the fruit that it bore.
Marx was an atheist.
Marx brought about bad things
Therefore atheists bring about bad things.
With a command of logic like this, you must be a mathematician!
I remember a very recent post where you loudly and self-righteously decried "bigotry" against atheists. And yet this blogpost is praiseworthy.
You must have missed the qualified 'often'. Yes, fundamentalists are often stupid bastards. Atheists are sometimes - I wouldn't say often - stupid bastards too.
F.J. Mitchell's was in bad taste but intended to be a bad joke. Muzzle_em's was beyond the pale, wardaddy was expressing a very reasonable attitude toward an event which was quite obviously a hoax to him and resulted in the man suffering nothing more substantial than an extraordinarily short stay in the hospital. Go Gordon's post was uncalled for.
I note you quoted LK44-40. Well this is pretty low of you. First, the post was pulled. Second, the poster signed up on...Nov 23, 2005.
Do I have to spell out what that means or did you figure it out on your own?
I believe that "often" isn't enough to soften the bigotry. I could give you a parallel example with race, but I think you are smart enough to understand the point.
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