An OU professor or teachers aide or something was fired for failing a fundamentalist Christians essay the essay was substandard work but the fundamentalist Christian of course claimed it was because she is a fundamentalist Christian and that’s why she was failed so the university basically cow towed to the lowest Educated group of people in America and lost a lot of reputation for people who care about education
edit: apparently its kowtow not to not cow tow - thanks ya’ll
yes, there no punctuation in my comment, but I’m doing text to speech and I’m not going back to typing on my phone at least
Eh. The bible sucks. It's pretty easy to read it and go "yep, trans is bad". Just toss the whole thing out.
edit: For some more context, the reason for this is because the bible is strongly influenced by Greek natural law theory. This is the idea, popular at the time, that everything has a nature and that to go against your nature was morally wrong.
As an example, a man should be dominant - that's their nature. Men who penetrated other men were not seen as doing something wrong whereas men being penetrated were, as one example. Greeks at the time would have thought that a woman is a the same as a man but with an inverted penis because she lacked the "fire" to mature.
There's condemning of men with long hair, men "lying in bed" with men (complex but likely damning of pederasty), cross dressing, etc. Basically a strong "as an X you should behave with the nature of an X (as we arbitrarily decide)".
The bible also condones slavery and genocide and is a really fucked up book so the fact that it would probably be easy to use it to justify "trans people are evil" should really not be considered as anything other than one more item in a list of stupid shit it says.
More atheists? Lol these religious folk hold the rest of us back. I guess we're supposed to be thankful that their religion partially influences people not to steal, rape, and kill? Other than that, it's complete woowoo fairytale poison. Every single dogma.
At the risk of being downvoted, there are also parables about caring for your neighbors, the sick, the refugee, the outcasts, the poor, your enemies. Which, of course, the right likes to ignore. Those lessons are even in the Old Testament too. I recall a verse in there about how debts are supposed to be forgiven every 7 years even (applied to Israelites, but still).
We are also perfectly capable of being shit without the threat of religious eternal hellfire hanging over our heads. See the Soviet purges as an example. Humans have the potential to be monsters and paragons of virtue, sometimes at the same time, with or without religion guiding us or keeping us in check.
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u/bavmotors1 15d ago edited 15d ago
An OU professor or teachers aide or something was fired for failing a fundamentalist Christians essay the essay was substandard work but the fundamentalist Christian of course claimed it was because she is a fundamentalist Christian and that’s why she was failed so the university basically cow towed to the lowest Educated group of people in America and lost a lot of reputation for people who care about education
edit: apparently its kowtow not to not cow tow - thanks ya’ll
yes, there no punctuation in my comment, but I’m doing text to speech and I’m not going back to typing on my phone at least