Kill 'em with platitudes.
I'd say if you have three years to go under this Supervisor and he already disregards policy by including Bible quotes in his signature, you can pretty much rest assured he's one of those Christians that believes he answers to a higher calling than University policy or man's laws.
And if he's called on the carpet for the email signature violation, he'll most likely cite religious bias.
There are militant Christians that believe that secularism is pushing to outlaw or prohibit by policies or implication, the Christian religion. When individuals, groups, the Constitution and it's alluding to the separation of church and State per the 1st amendment, are utilized to stop what is the actual push by Christians to insure their faith's standards are implemented within the secular realm, the militant Christian will once again play the victim. As if it's simply inconceivable to not want a business, a PTA, a government funded public school system, women's health clinics, etc... to adopt Christian moral values by law or policy.
That being said, if he sends you any emails with that nifty violation in the signature, save them. If you can manage it, send them to file you can keep somewhere where it can't be accessed at the University. Keep anything he sends you with anything religious that is in violation of University policy.
Because by including that signature in his emails, as a Supervisor knowing full well he's violating policy, he's sending the message he's a Christian and he shall not be persuaded to comport himself in a way the secular realm requires by policy. Which is a message received by fellow Theists, who would be in accord with that attitude. And to all non-Christians, so as to insure they know they should comport themselves in a manner conducive to pleasing his religious values.
Which is working, because of the warning you received from a fellow student who clearly has experienced what he's like as a supervisor who is a Christian first.
If it were me and he approached me outright about faith, asked my religious affiliation, etc... I'd smile and remind him very politely that this is a University and not a church. And as such I don't feel comfortable violating policy by disregarding the line between the two. And then I'd ask, very politely, that he refrain from further inquiry of that part of my personal life that does not come under his purview.
I'd say if you have three years to go under this Supervisor and he already disregards policy by including Bible quotes in his signature, you can pretty much rest assured he's one of those Christians that believes he answers to a higher calling than University policy or man's laws.
And if he's called on the carpet for the email signature violation, he'll most likely cite religious bias.
There are militant Christians that believe that secularism is pushing to outlaw or prohibit by policies or implication, the Christian religion. When individuals, groups, the Constitution and it's alluding to the separation of church and State per the 1st amendment, are utilized to stop what is the actual push by Christians to insure their faith's standards are implemented within the secular realm, the militant Christian will once again play the victim. As if it's simply inconceivable to not want a business, a PTA, a government funded public school system, women's health clinics, etc... to adopt Christian moral values by law or policy.
That being said, if he sends you any emails with that nifty violation in the signature, save them. If you can manage it, send them to file you can keep somewhere where it can't be accessed at the University. Keep anything he sends you with anything religious that is in violation of University policy.
Because by including that signature in his emails, as a Supervisor knowing full well he's violating policy, he's sending the message he's a Christian and he shall not be persuaded to comport himself in a way the secular realm requires by policy. Which is a message received by fellow Theists, who would be in accord with that attitude. And to all non-Christians, so as to insure they know they should comport themselves in a manner conducive to pleasing his religious values.
Which is working, because of the warning you received from a fellow student who clearly has experienced what he's like as a supervisor who is a Christian first.
If it were me and he approached me outright about faith, asked my religious affiliation, etc... I'd smile and remind him very politely that this is a University and not a church. And as such I don't feel comfortable violating policy by disregarding the line between the two. And then I'd ask, very politely, that he refrain from further inquiry of that part of my personal life that does not come under his purview.
"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."
Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy
