[Baladas]

Must...not...deviate from academia dogma.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

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

[yldstrk]

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.

[Fitzcarraldo]

is to eliminate religion from human life altogether

How does he propose to accomplish this?

[OB1kNOb]

Intellectualism and wisdom are not necessarily synonymous.

[Calm_Cool_and_Elected]

ISU PING!

[LantzALot]

...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.

[lonestar67]

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.

[teacherwoes]

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

[kittymyrib]

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.”

[M1Tanker]

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.

[Vision]

Al Frankin's twin.

[onedoug]

...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.

[RightWhale]

That is quite a stretch.

[Teacher317]

Probably passed up by priests when he was young, and still resents it.

[LiteKeeper]

Why am I not surprised?

[DungeonMaster]

I wish more people realized that the university stands for this before sending their kids there.

[gcruse]

” the Bible as a relic of an ancient civilization instead of the “living” document most religionist scholars believe it should be’

How odd. Conservatives decry the leftist notion of a living constitution, but are just fine with the bible being such.

[VOA]

He urges his colleagues to concentrate on educating the broader
society to recognize the irrelevance and even violent effects
of the Bible in modern life.

And to revise any history books mentioning the fruits of
Communism/Marxism and other areligious movements that blighted
the twentieth century?

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

"Mein Kampf does not contain a single explicit command for genocide equivalent to those found in the Hebrew Bible"

Like it or not, any unbiased reading of the Old Testament would come to the same conclusion.

What the article (and Alvos) doesn't say is that the Old Testament is superseded by the New Testament. Christianity is based on Christs teachings, not Old Testament teachings.

[PeterPrinciple]

Avalos has led the charge against Gonzalez and intelligent design on ISU’s campus, helping to draft a 2005 petition denouncing intelligent design that ultimately was signed by more than 120 ISU faculty.

Isn’t tolerance a wonderful thing..............