Professor makes students "stomp" on Jesus

This is sickening. Major props to the kid who refused.

By Todd Starnes

A Florida Atlantic University student said he was punished after he
refused a professor’s directive to stomp on a piece of paper with the
word “Jesus” written on it. The university, meanwhile, is defending the
assignment as a lesson in debate.


“I’m not going to be sitting in a class having my religious rights desecrated,” student Ryan Rotela told television station WPEC. “I truly see this as I’m being punished.”

Rotela, who is a devout Mormon, said the instructor in his
Intercultural Communications class told the students to write the name
“Jesus” on a sheet of paper. Then, they were told to put the paper on
the floor.

“He had us all stand up and he said ‘Stomp on it,’” Rotela said. “I
picked up the paper from the floor and put it right back on the table.

The young college student told the instructor, Deandre Poole, that the assignment was insulting and offensive.

“I said to the professor, ‘With all due respect to your authority as a
professor, I do not believe what you told us to do was appropriate,’” Rotela said. ‘I believe it was unprofessional and I was deeply offended by what you told me to do.’”

Rotela took his concerns to Poole’s supervisor – where he was promptly suspended from the class.

Poole did not return calls seeking comment.

According to his university profile, he has a PhD from Howard
University and is authoring a book titled, “Obamamania: The Rise of a
Mythical Hero.”

A university spokesperson told they could not comment about Rotela’s case due to student privacy laws.

However, the university is defending the instructor’s assignment to stomp on the name of Jesus.

“As with any academic lesson, the exercise was meant to encourage
students to view issues from many perspectives, in direct relation with
the course objectives,” said Noemi Marin, the university’s director of
the school of communication and multimedia studies.

“While at times the topics discussed may be sensitive, a university
environment is a venue for such dialogue and debate,” Marin added.

The lesson on bashing the name of Christ is included in a textbook
titled, “Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach, 5^th Edition.”

Fox News obtained a synopsis of the lesson that got Rotela in trouble.

“Have the students write the name JESUS in big letters on a piece of
paper,” the lesson reads. “Ask the students to stand up and put the
paper on the floor in front of them with the name facing up. Ask the
students to think about it for a moment. After a brief period of silence
instruct them to step on the paper. Most will hesitate. Ask why they
can’t step on the paper. Discuss the importance of symbols in culture.”

Paul Kengor, the executive director of the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College, told Fox News he’s not surprised by the classroom lesson.

“These are the new secular disciples of ‘diversity’ and ‘tolerance’ –
empty buzzwords that make liberals and progressives feel good while
they often refuse to tolerate and sometimes even assault traditional
Christian and conservative beliefs,” Kengor said.

Kengor said classes like the one at Florida Atlantic University
demonstrate the contempt many public institutions hold for people of
faith.

“It also reflects the rising confidence and aggression of the new
secularists and atheists, especially at our sick and surreal modern
universities,” he said.

The university did not explain why students were only instructed to
write the name of Jesus – and not the name of Mohammed or another
religious figure.

“Gee, I wonder if the instructor would dare do this with the name of Mohammed,” Kengor wondered.

Rotela said the idea of stomping on the name of Jesus was beyond his comprehension.

“Any time you stomp on something it shows you believe that it has no
value,” he told the television station. “If you were to stomp on the
word Jesus – it says the word has no value.”

hmmm....Just JESUS huh? not Mohammed or Alah or any one else.....hhmmm!

Anybody want to put it on FB? I'll check JRed to see if he's seen it
and will perhaps post it.
This makes me want to raise a big stink...the biggest I can.

I think I'd have put the professor's name on the paper and stomped on it. Now that would have been fun!

wakeupcall1111 wrote:

I think I'd have put the professor's name on the paper and stomped on it. Now that would have been fun!

I could think of something like printing the proffs name on soft little detachable squares of paper and calling them something like Charmin or Scot Tissue.

Ahh, old Mr. Whipple! Haven't seen that commercial in decades - LOL. Actually, I never realized how creepy it was with all of that unadulterated squeezing going on. Heavens!

It's a KERFUFFLE, according to this article. BUT! It's a good one!

http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/30/teachers-who-stomped-american-flag-jesus-are-officially-no-longer-teaching/

At Florida Atlantic, communications instructor Deandre Poole is now on administrative leave after junior Ryan Rotela, a devout Mormon, was suspended from class because he complained about Poole’s Jesus-stomping assignment.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/30/teachers-who-stomped-american-flag-jesus-are-officially-no-longer-teaching/#ixzz2P2qmK8kp

School officials expressed concerned about Poole’s physical safety after he allegedly received death threats and racially-tinged messages on his voicemail. Poole is black.

“I’ve never seen anything like it on campus, the vitriol that has been released on this guy,” Chris Robe, assistant professor of communications and faculty union president, told the Sun Sentinel.''

''The announcement comes after FAU already issued a groveling, nearly-touching apology and Florida Gov. Rick Scott blasted the school as “intolerant to Christians.”

More at link!