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Stomp on Jesus.
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A Florida Atlantic University student said he was punished after he refused a professor's directive to stomp on a piece of paper with the word "Jesus" written on it. The university, meanwhile, is defending the assignment as a lesson in debate.
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"I'm not going to be sitting in a class having my religious rights desecrated," student Ryan Rotela told television station WPEC. "I truly see this as I'm being punished."
Rotela, who is a devout Mormon, said the instructor in his Intercultural Communications class told the students to write the name "Jesus" on a sheet of paper. Then, they were told to put the paper on the floor.
"He had us all stand up and he said `Stomp on it,'" Rotela said. "I picked up the paper from the floor and put it right back on the table.
The young college student told the instructor, Deandre Poole, that the assignment was insulting and offensive.
"I said to the professor, `With all due respect to your authority as a professor, I do not believe what you told us to do was appropriate,'" Rotela said. `I believe it was unprofessional and I was deeply offended by what you told me to do.'"
Rotela took his concerns to Poole's supervisor - where he was promptly suspended from the class.
Poole did not return calls seeking comment.
According to his university profile, he has a PhD from Howard University and is authoring a book titled, "Obamamania: The Rise of a Mythical Hero."
A university spokesperson told they could not comment about Rotela's case due to student privacy laws.
However, the university is defending the instructor's assignment to stomp on the name of Jesus.
"As with any academic lesson, the exercise was meant to encourage students to view issues from many perspectives, in direct relation with the course objectives," said Noemi Marin, the university's director of the school of communication and multimedia studies.
"While at times the topics discussed may be sensitive, a university environment is a venue for such dialogue and debate," Marin added.
The lesson on bashing the name of Christ is included in a textbook titled, "Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach, 5th Edition."
Fox News obtained a synopsis of the lesson that got Rotela in trouble.
"Have the students write the name JESUS in big letters on a piece of paper," the lesson reads. "Ask the students to stand up and put the paper on the floor in front of them with the name facing up. Ask the students to think about it for a moment. After a brief period of silence instruct them to step on the paper. Most will hesitate. Ask why they can't step on the paper. Discuss the importance of symbols in culture."
Paul Kengor, the executive director of the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College, told Fox News he's not surprised by the classroom lesson.
"These are the new secular disciples of `diversity' and `tolerance' - empty buzzwords that make liberals and progressives feel good while they often refuse to tolerate and sometimes even assault traditional Christian and conservative beliefs," Kengor said.
Kengor said classes like the one at Florida Atlantic University demonstrate the contempt many public institutions hold for people of faith.
"It also reflects the rising confidence and aggression of the new secularists and atheists, especially at our sick and surreal modern universities," he said.
The university did not explain why students were only instructed to write the name of Jesus - and not the name of Mohammed or another religious figure.
"Gee, I wonder if the instructor would dare do this with the name of Mohammed," Kengor wondered.
Rotela said the idea of stomping on the name of Jesus was beyond his comprehension.
"Any time you stomp on something it shows you believe that it has no value," he told the television station. "If you were to stomp on the word Jesus - it says the word has no value."
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"I'm not going to be sitting in a class having my religious rights desecrated," student Ryan Rotela told television station WPEC. "I truly see this as I'm being punished."
Rotela, who is a devout Mormon, said the instructor in his Intercultural Communications class told the students to write the name "Jesus" on a sheet of paper. Then, they were told to put the paper on the floor.
"He had us all stand up and he said `Stomp on it,'" Rotela said. "I picked up the paper from the floor and put it right back on the table.
The young college student told the instructor, Deandre Poole, that the assignment was insulting and offensive.
"I said to the professor, `With all due respect to your authority as a professor, I do not believe what you told us to do was appropriate,'" Rotela said. `I believe it was unprofessional and I was deeply offended by what you told me to do.'"
Rotela took his concerns to Poole's supervisor - where he was promptly suspended from the class.
Poole did not return calls seeking comment.
According to his university profile, he has a PhD from Howard University and is authoring a book titled, "Obamamania: The Rise of a Mythical Hero."
A university spokesperson told they could not comment about Rotela's case due to student privacy laws.
However, the university is defending the instructor's assignment to stomp on the name of Jesus.
"As with any academic lesson, the exercise was meant to encourage students to view issues from many perspectives, in direct relation with the course objectives," said Noemi Marin, the university's director of the school of communication and multimedia studies.
"While at times the topics discussed may be sensitive, a university environment is a venue for such dialogue and debate," Marin added.
The lesson on bashing the name of Christ is included in a textbook titled, "Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach, 5th Edition."
Fox News obtained a synopsis of the lesson that got Rotela in trouble.
"Have the students write the name JESUS in big letters on a piece of paper," the lesson reads. "Ask the students to stand up and put the paper on the floor in front of them with the name facing up. Ask the students to think about it for a moment. After a brief period of silence instruct them to step on the paper. Most will hesitate. Ask why they can't step on the paper. Discuss the importance of symbols in culture."
Paul Kengor, the executive director of the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College, told Fox News he's not surprised by the classroom lesson.
"These are the new secular disciples of `diversity' and `tolerance' - empty buzzwords that make liberals and progressives feel good while they often refuse to tolerate and sometimes even assault traditional Christian and conservative beliefs," Kengor said.
Kengor said classes like the one at Florida Atlantic University demonstrate the contempt many public institutions hold for people of faith.
"It also reflects the rising confidence and aggression of the new secularists and atheists, especially at our sick and surreal modern universities," he said.
The university did not explain why students were only instructed to write the name of Jesus - and not the name of Mohammed or another religious figure.
"Gee, I wonder if the instructor would dare do this with the name of Mohammed," Kengor wondered.
Rotela said the idea of stomping on the name of Jesus was beyond his comprehension.
"Any time you stomp on something it shows you believe that it has no value," he told the television station. "If you were to stomp on the word Jesus - it says the word has no value."
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Comments
I do not believe college professors have any "authority" to force students to complete am assignment (Good or bad).
As a college student you are a customer, your education may cost more than your first home.
What myth is it that allows these students to believe the professor has authority over them?
Under graduate: Absorb and repeat (rote learning).
Graduate: Develop and express complex unique thought.
PhD: TEACH others to develop and express complex and unique thought.
disgracing Jesus to prove a point is as low as it gets!
I would like to stomp the stuffing out him and then tell him
Jesus loves you. [:D]
AMEN
How about ending the debate with stomping on the professor
disgracing Jesus to prove a point is as low as it gets!
+ 1000
He should have stomped the prof. I am all for that......I really am.
I would like to stomp the stuffing out him and then tell him
Jesus loves you. [:D]
Check out my post here Same topic.
http://forums.GunBroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=594433
quote:Originally posted by 338weatherby
How about ending the debate with stomping on the professor
disgracing Jesus to prove a point is as low as it gets!
+ 1000
He should have stomped the prof. I am all for that......I really am.
I don't have a problem with that either.
http://www.itwillpass.com/philosophy-Professor-proves-that-God-does-not-exist.shtml
The prof was black ! Is he a muslim or a democrat
Bofe!
Carvel...[:o)]
Bet they don't have the balls to stomp on Muhammad.
or obamy, mlk, or lincoln
What this professor did was absurd!