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UCF professor sends email after witnessing 'religious bigotry' in class

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Published: Friday, August 17, 2012

Updated: Friday, August 17, 2012 14:08

Universities hold a special place in society where scholarly-minded folks can come together and discuss controversial, polemic, and often uncomfortable topics. Universities, including UCF, have special policies in place to protect our (both professors’ and students’) freedom to express ourselves. Neither students nor professors have a right to censor speech that makes us uncomfortable. We're adults. We're at a university. There is no topic that is “off-limits” for us to address in class, if even only remotely related to the course topic. I hope you will digest this message, and just as important, will take it to heart as it may apply to you.

Charles Negy

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1 comments

Bob Henderson
Sun Aug 19 2012 11:45
After much critical thinking, I have concluded the professor is a pseudointellectual malcontent and a religious bigot himself. He is also wrong in several other areas: University Purpose, Critical Thinking, Tyranny of the Majority, and Anti-Intellectualism. This isn't the forum for a detailed discussion, but I will state the purpose of the university is to increase knowledge in both general and specific areas: everyone uses critical thinking although not to undermine their beliefs but to reinforce them; tyranny exists by the minority, not the majority; and lastly, anti-intellectualism is a debunked thesis advanced primarily by the late Richard Hofstadter!

Christians should read "The Age of Revelation" by Elias Boudinot (a response to Paine's "Age of Reason), and those inclined toward a social utopia should read "The God that Failed" inspired by Arthur Koestler.

"Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it." - Nicolas Gomez Davila (1913-1994)





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