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Iowa State Promotes Atheist Professor Who Equates Bible with Mein Kampf
Evolution News & Views ^ | May 22, 2007 | John West

Posted on 05/22/2007 6:26:44 AM PDT by Baladas

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Must...not...deviate from academia dogma.
1 posted on 05/22/2007 6:26:49 AM PDT by Baladas
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To: Baladas

More proof that there are a LOT of people out there who are educated beyond their intelligence.


2 posted on 05/22/2007 6:28:39 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Run Fred RUN!)
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To: Baladas

Partnership with God is the model of today ..those professors show their utter stupidity and blind ignorance when then open their mouth and loosen their silly tongues.


3 posted on 05/22/2007 6:29:26 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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is to eliminate religion from human life altogether

How does he propose to accomplish this?

4 posted on 05/22/2007 6:30:12 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo (Skip the Moon, go for Mars)
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To: Baladas
Intellectualism and wisdom are not necessarily synonymous.
5 posted on 05/22/2007 6:31:43 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (If you're conservative, then support conservative candidates. Support Duncan Hunter for POTUS.)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

Deocide?


6 posted on 05/22/2007 6:32:34 AM PDT by Waverunner
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http://www.philrs.iastate.edu/avalos.shtml

Faculty


Hector Avalos

Professor
Religious Studies

402 Catt Hall
Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: (515) 294-0051
Email:havalos@iastate.edu 
Home Pages: 
Publications
Research 

Education 
Ph.D. 1991, Harvard University, 1991
M.T.S. 1985, Harvard Divinity School
B.A. in Anthropology, 1982 University of Arizona
 
Research and Teaching Interests 
Biblical and Near Eastern Studies
U.S. Latino/a Religion and Literature
Religion and Violence
Science and Religion
 
Selected Publications 
Strangers in Our Own Land: Religion in U.S. Latina/o Literature, (Nashville: Abingdon, In press).

Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence, (Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2005)

Introduction to the U.S. Latina and Latino Religious Experience, (Editor; Boston: Brill, 2004).

Se puede saber si Dios existe? [Can One Know if God Exists?]. (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Press, 2003).

Health Care and the Rise of Christianity (Peabody: Mass: Hendrickson Press, 1999).

Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East: The Role
 of the Temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel (Harvard
 Semitic Monographs 54: Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.
 
Courses Taught 
Bible
Old Testament
New Testament
Latina/o Religious Experience
Religion and Latina/o Literature
Professional Acitivity
Society of Biblical Literature
American Academy of Religion

7 posted on 05/22/2007 6:33:02 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo (Skip the Moon, go for Mars)
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To: Baladas; visually_augmented

ISU PING!


8 posted on 05/22/2007 6:33:45 AM PDT by Calm_Cool_and_Elected (So many books, so little time!)
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...adviser to the ISU Atheist and Agnostic Society.

Which should make him unqualified to be a professor of anything related to religion. Atheist and agnostics are not the same.

9 posted on 05/22/2007 6:33:54 AM PDT by LantzALot
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How does he propose to accomplish this?

Oh, I'm sure you know. The man is obviously familiar with Mein Kampf, I'm sure he's got a solution, one with some Finality, probably.

People like this guy disgust me. Equating an act love done with religious reasoning as immoral, yet to "rid humanity of evil", I'm sure the end will justify the means, right?

10 posted on 05/22/2007 6:33:58 AM PDT by EarthBound (Ex Deo,gratia. Ex astris,scientia (Duncan Hunter in 2008! http://www.gohunter08.com))
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Deocide?

Which in practice results in genocide.

11 posted on 05/22/2007 6:34:03 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo (Skip the Moon, go for Mars)
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And one way to remedy or minimize unverifiability in any decision-making process, especially that leading to violence, is to eliminate religion from human life altogether.” [p. 371, emphasis added]

Nietszche’s recipe for genocide could not be stated any better.

Consequently, Nazi Fascism and Secular Communism set out to slaughter 100 million people.


12 posted on 05/22/2007 6:35:11 AM PDT by lonestar67 (Its time to withdraw from the War on Bush-- your side is hopelessly lost in a quagmire.)
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Avalos's appointment as the executive director of a group affiliated with the Council for Secular Humanism that seeks to debunk religion.

Do you think the Council will try and debunk Islam? I'd bring the popcorn for that

13 posted on 05/22/2007 6:35:50 AM PDT by teacherwoes ("It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society" -Gideon Welles)
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To: Baladas

Shhh...don’t wake the Lutherans and Catholics in Iowa up. They enjoy sleeping in their pews every Sunday and sending their money to the state to support the indoctrination of their children by anti-God Satan-followers, such as Prof. Avalos. The 21st century Church is not the “Church Militant” but the “Church Sedated.”


14 posted on 05/22/2007 6:38:07 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Baladas
I wonder what the headline would be if this socialist prof (and Hitler was a socialist who hated Christianity also) stated the same thing about the Koran?

I am sure he would not be getting promoted and CAIR would be all over this.

Telling of the anti-Christian/Jewish mentality of the leftists. Also, speaking of Main Kampf, how is what Hitler wrote ANY different from the slogans of the left today? Maybe the “learned” professor should study THAT.

Here’s a title for his next class: “Socialism and Genocide, a History”. I doubt that one will ever be taught.

15 posted on 05/22/2007 6:53:14 AM PDT by M1Tanker (Proven Daily: Modern "progressive" liberalism is just National Socialism without the "twisted cross")
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To: Calm_Cool_and_Elected

How ‘bout those Hawks !


16 posted on 05/22/2007 7:19:14 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: Baladas
Al Frankin's twin.


17 posted on 05/22/2007 7:21:51 AM PDT by Vision ("Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him." Jeremiah 17:7)
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...to recognize the irrelevance and even violent effects of the Bible in modern life.

Well had there been no Bible there would be no United States and thus no ISU nor "Professor" Avalos.

But this only strengthens Gonzales' case should he file suit for discrimination.

19 posted on 05/22/2007 7:47:15 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Baladas

That is quite a stretch.


20 posted on 05/22/2007 7:50:28 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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