Posted on 12/08/2005 5:33:53 PM PST by xzins
Paul Mirecki resigned as chairman of the religious studies department. He still teaches at the university.
TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) -- A University of Kansas professor who drew criticism for e-mails he wrote deriding Christian fundamentalists over creationism has resigned as chairman of the Department of Religious Studies.
stepped aside on the recommendation of his colleagues, Contacted by The Associated Press, Mirecki declined to comment about his decision, only saying he was still a member of the university faculty and planned to continue teaching.
Mirecki had planned to teach a course .... Originally called "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies," the course was canceled last week at Mirecki's request.... Mirecki to members of a student organization referred to religious conservatives as "fundies" and said a course describing intelligent design as mythology would be a "nice slap in their big fat face." .....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Sounds like a warm, accepting guy. /sarcasm
The question is, and mind you in Kansas, How could someone with that attitude ever become chairman of the Department of Religious Studies?
Running out with my buddy to go buy some beer in my white pick up truck ...be right back.
Lawrence, KS - University of Kansas religion professor Paul Mirecki, whose planned course on creationism was canceled after he described Christian students as "redneck Taliban fucktards who belong in formaldehyde, not in classrooms," was released today from a Lawrence hospital after an attack by a mysterious gang of Nascar racers.
According to Mirecki, he was driving his car at 3 AM on the outskirts of town when "20 or 30" Nascar race car pickup trucks suddenly appeared in a local WalMart parking lot and began following him menacingly, blaring AM talk radio. He says they ran him into a ditch, and began beating him with bibles, banjos and moonshine jars marked with 'XXX.'
"'This here's MERIKUH, and wee's all Jezus lovin' USA MER'KINS, yew gol-durn trickifyin' commernist smartypants! Stop challingin' our traditional backwoods bible valewz and tax cuts with yer dirty college book-larnin'!'" Mirecki quoted one of the assailants as saying. Mirecki said another threatened to "'shut up that thar purty professerin' mouth o' yers, lessen yew stop perluti-fyin' our Kansas hillbilly yunguns withen yore Satan monkey theories.'"
Mirecki was released from the hospital after treatment for minor bruises on his right cheekbone and fist.
Lawrence Police spokesman Carl Baher said that identifing the assailants would be difficult because, according to Mirecki, they were wearing Klan hoods and Sean Hannity masks. Nevertheless, Baher said his department would pursue all leads in the incident, the first recorded Nascar-related hate crime to occur in this quiet university town in more than 120 years.
"We are asking the Lawrence and KU community to aid in the investigation," said Baher. "Please report all sitings of white hillbilly Nazi plutocrats driving loud race pickups with large Halliburton or Enron decals."
(from IowaHawk)
Native American Studies --- Ward Churchill
Religion in our Culture--- Paul Mirecki
Capitalists to Know and Love --- Joseph Stalin
Freedom in the 21st Century --- Kim Jong IL
A Tawana Brawley incident brewing regarding his "alleged" beating by Christians.
IowaHawk is brilliant on this one.
Where's he been lately?
How could someone who so clearly disdains certain religious beliefs have been put in charge of any Religious Studies Department? Who's in charge of their African American Studies Deptartment, David Duke?
"IowaHawk is brilliant on this one.
Where's he been lately?"
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/
"The question is, and mind you in Kansas, How could someone with that attitude ever become chairman of the Department of Religious Studies?"
Every time I think I have a handle on how bad things are at US universities, something happens to show me that I don't know the half of it.
LOL! (Oxygen please!)
This actually warms my heart. Got my masters at the REAL university in Kansas.
KSU
In last 20 years more Rhodes Scholars from KSU than any other US college except ____________
(Incidentally, I wasn't one of them....:>)
> Every time I think I have a handle on how bad things
> are at US universities, something happens to show me
> that I don't know the half of it.
Some of the KU Schools are at least honestly admitting
that they run scholastic cesspools:
http://www.journalism.ku.edu/school/msnvalues.shtml
Explains what happened to "what, when, where, who ...",
objectivity, fact-checking, grammar, etc., leaving
only "why", and that (usually "Bush's fault") is
now determined prior to the event.
Very interesting that those journalistos lean so hard on "diversity." I guess that must mean that they take pains to ensure that they enroll at least some conservative students, eh?
Also interesting because I just finished reading this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1536811/posts
> Very interesting that those journalistos lean so hard
> on "diversity."
And they take great pains to avoid defining it.
Diversity is the schizophrenic art of celebrating that
people are different while at the same time pretending
that people aren't different.
> I guess that must mean that they take pains to ensure that
> they enroll at least some conservative students, eh?
No, that would require at least nominal "tolerance",
something libs don't actually have.
In last 20 years more Rhodes Scholars from KSU than any other US college except ____________
Reed College in Oregon?
"No, that would require at least nominal "tolerance",
something libs don't actually have."
You know things are bad when all the cynicism you can muster falls short of the reality.
Last I saw, it was Harvard.
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