One of our Own Embarasses Us

[Pyrrho]

Hmm. I found the video on Microsoft Network.

Yes, but if you look at the video, you can see it is a Fox news story.  This means that you also cannot trust Microsoft Network to tell you the truth, either, given that they would present such a story.  I recommend you find another news source.


A good rule of thumb is, if you ever encounter what seems to be an outrageous story, do an online search to see what others have to say about the matter.  Very often, outrageous stories are misrepresenting what is going on.  Of course, "very often" does not mean "always."  In this case, there are a bunch of pro-religion sites parroting the idea that religion is being attacked.  If that were really the case, almost certainly the school would fall on the professor like a ton of bricks.

When something is a non-story, as appears to be the case here, one will not find many sources that will bother to tell you what is going on.  But certain kinds of sites should be dismissed out of hand as being untrustworthy, such as religious sites for a story like this (or for pretty much anything, other than telling you what their official doctrine is).

Another rule of thumb is, whenever a student is complaining about a grade, it is usually that the student did not do the assignment satisfactorily, and wants to punish the teacher for the student's failure to do a good job.  I have attended school myself, and I noticed many times that students who did crap work were unhappy about their grades, and wanted to 'get back at' the teacher.  Of course, a rule of thumb is not an absolute rule, but it is what one should normally expect to be the case.

[Salacious B. Crumb]

No big deal AFTT47. It's good to see you were trying to report events in a fair manner. Next time don't go to FOX for that, especially if their story involves a christian being persecuted. 

[Longhorn]

Sorry everybody; looks like I got fooled.  

Good catch, Pyrrho.  

We were all fooled, bub, don't sweat it

yeah, good job detective Poirot Pyrrho
(I keep reading your name with an accent on the 'o', idk why)

[Saxmoof]

This is the problem with teaching religion, if you teach religious texts as fact you can't do it without showing bias towards one particular religion because they can't all be right, and if you take an objective historical view of religion you can't do it without questioning the notion of religious beliefs to begin with which is obviously off limits for religious students and parents.

I don't really see the problem with asking why Christianity wanted to silence women and saying that it's one of the biggest causes of violence in history, these things are objectively true

[abaris]

True, but guys like this just enforce stereotypes that dumb fuck theists already have of atheists.

Do you also care when a mouse farts? Dumbfuck theists will always stereotype. It's us, who shouldn't give a damn.