Death Threats for ‘Stomp on Jesus’ Professor ← Moral Compass The student's version sounded unbelievable to me, but Fox News and others ran with it with abandon. I wish this guy would have spoken up sooner.
Been waiting for this. Figured there was more to it. True story - A friend of mine is a pastor of a church plant in one of the areas around New Orleans (I forget which city exactly). Anyway, during Mardi Gras in 2012, they were handing out water at one of the parades. Authorities asked to see their permit. He had no idea you had to have one, didn't have one, and they told him no leave. No worries. He did. Local talk show called and asked if he would talk about it. He said sure, not thinking anything about it. Quickly escalated into a suppression of the church by the government conversation. As much as he tried to steer it away from that, he was hooked. He called the city apologized, etc. Anyway, ended up Fox News got wind of this and wanted to interview him and city officials to blow it out of the water. All that to say, I'm not surprised.
I'm surprised the Mormon was so adamant. You'd think the professor asked him to stomp on a piece of paper with Joseph Smith written on it the way he reacted. It's not like the guy offended the integrity of his fifteen sister-wives.
I do too and hopefully they do. I'm not sure what the author of this article expects to happen when one and only one angle is being reported on something. His disdain for Christians is quite apparent.
why did the students die sound unbelievable? only one in 10,000 kids would actually throw a s fit about it. most would probably find it an interesting excercise. the prof probably was shocked.
Yes, it's a creative, provocative and instructive exercise. I would find it hard to believe that a professor would really bother with creating some kind of purposeless activity simply to inject some kind of anti-Christian attitude within the students. I could easily see some professor going into a rant about the evils of Christianity, but find the idea of some petulant stomping of Jesus name on a piece of paper to do the same a bunch of made up bullshit.
I found the idea that a professor forced a student to stomp on something and then kicking him out of the class for not doing it utterly unbelievable. I've heard of this exercise before. Typically, no one or very few actually do what is said immediately and hesitate. The instructor then says to stop, and ask why they hesitated. You tell me how that can get a guy tossed out of a class. It was obvious something was missing.
And the Muslim students would hesitate to even probably throw the paper on the ground. So you'd ask them why and talk about the power of symbols. That's the exercise.
I'm sure he was shocked. So why would he kick him out for being simply upset? It was obvious something was missing, and the threatening part fits perfectly. That this guy is a regular at a local church speaks volumes about the absurdity of him just having an ax to grind against Christ, or trying to punish an objectionable Christian.
I completely agree kicking him out seems unlikely unless the guy was getting really disruptive about it.
This guy would have been fired in minutes by the school if he was telling kids to stomp a picture of Mohammad. Not saying that right btw
