The Southwestern Community College in Iowa fired an educator for not promoting Christianity.
Steve Bitterman, a now ex-professor at SCC, was teaching a Western Civilization class. Every other cultural religion that they had covered the students seemed to be fine with until they reached covering Christianity in the same way that all the other religions were looked at. When Bitterman stated that the Garden of Eden story is not historically true, one of his students argued with him and then walked out of the classroom.
“A few of the students thought I was knocking their religion by not promoting it,” he said. “They were upset that I didn’t say that the Bible was literally true.” Bitterman said that he treats the Bible as a historically significant, important work, but that he does not accord it status beyond that. “That really seemed to come as a shock to some of them,” he said. You can read the full story over at Inside Higher Ed.
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