Kansas college professor beaten for anti-creationism sentiments
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Kan. Professor Attacked Along Rural Road
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -- A college professor whose planned course on creationism and intelligent design was canceled after he derided Christian conservatives said he was beaten by two men along a rural road early Monday.
University of Kansas religious studies professor Paul Mirecki said the men referred to the class when they beat him on the head, shoulders and back with their fists, and possibly a metal object, the Lawrence Journal-World reported.
"I didn't know them," Mirecki said of his assailants, "but I'm sure they knew me."
Messages left by the Associated Press on Mirecki's cell phone were not immediately returned.
Sheriff's Lt. Kari Wempe said Mirecki reported the attack just before 7 a.m.
The professor said he confronted the men after they were tailgating his vehicle along a road south of Lawrence. "I'm mostly shaken up, and I got some bruises and sore spots," he said.
Mirecki planned to offer a spring course called "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies" after the Kansas Board of Education decided to include more criticism of evolution in science standards for elementary and secondary students.
Last week, Mirecki asked the university to cancel the class after he created a furor by sending an e-mail to a student organization mocking Christian fundamentalists.
Mirecki had 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." He has apologized for those comments.
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Admittedly, he was a bit out of line...
Hal Turner looks forward to bringing more pain:
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He has been the first; I look forward to many, many more.
I am proud to announce that a Kansas College Professor has become the first Christian Basher to be physically beaten for his derision of our beliefs. IT IS WISE TO BELIEVE THERE WILL BE MORE BEATINGS.
College professors, teachers, administrators, Boards of Education, Media personalities, Lawyers, Judges and politicians who attack Christianity, its beliefs, symbols or traditions should not be surprised if they receive the same treatment as was given to this professor: being physically, violently beaten.
We Christians are tired of being told to tolerate everyone else's beliefs, while ours are not tolerated. We have tried for years to battle this Anti-Christian Bigotry through words and the law. Both those methods have failed. We are now resorting to the use of force and violence.
Whether YOU are among those who are beaten is solely up to you. Leave Christianity alone and you will live in peace. Attack Christianity, it's symbols or traditions and you put yourself at personal risk of severe consequences. We are done talking.
If any of you know of any other people who need a beating over this issue kindly e-mail the details to me.
I must have missed the part where they replaced "turn the other cheek" with "IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!"
