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1 HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2014 12:49:27pm

Yeah downright terrible to talk about religious history. What a bigoted douchebag.

2 Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 28, 2014 1:56:35pm

Umm wouldn’t Middle Eastern History include Christianity too?

3 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 28, 2014 2:24:32pm

If we can’t force students to participate in Christian prayer in schools then they should not be allowed to learn that there are over a billion Moslems in the world!!!

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4 Randall Gross  Oct 28, 2014 2:37:47pm

It’s sad that he wants to force his ignorance on his daughter.

5 HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2014 3:16:33pm

re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg

Umm wouldn’t Middle Eastern History include Christianity too?

Yeah it would. But of course bigots like this who claim to be “religious people” don’t know crap about their religion.

6 majii  Oct 28, 2014 5:13:54pm

I taught world history for over 30 years at a GA high school. Wood and his wife are blowing big chunks of BS out of their rear ends and mouths. Their daughter attends a public high school. This means that the state of MD sets the curriculum standards for all courses taught at her school, including world history. It also means that no school official, board member, minister, politician, etc. can exempt a student from having to study certain topics in world history or in any other course. I covered the major world religions in the world history classes I taught, and not once did I have a student abandon Christianity to convert to another religion, and I never had a parent claim that I was trying to convince a kid to convert to another religion. After being banned from his daughter’s high school campus, Wood is now saying that he didn’t threaten administrators, but I guess he forgot that he said this: “”I told her straight up ‘you could take that Muslim-loving piece of paper and shove it up your white [expletive],” Kevin Wood said in an interview. “If [students] can’t practice Christianity in school, they should not be allowed to practice Islam in school.”

The one thing I always hated about teaching in a public school was having to deal with parents like Kevin Wood who have no education, training, or experience in education but who feel like they have the right to tell those who have these qualifications how to do their jobs.

My solutions for Mr. Wood’s alleged problem is to advise him to either home-school his kid or enroll her in a Christian-based school that will permit him to write its world history curriculum.

7 team_fukit  Oct 28, 2014 9:31:08pm

I used to teach introductory “Western” courses in some state college religion departments and invariably each semester on one my student evaluations someone would write something to the effect that I was trying to convert the class to Islam even though my perspective about all of the religions we studied was quite secular and outsiderish.

To many, I fear that if you aren’t calling Muslims pedophiles, murderers or crazy terrorists then you must be Huma Abedin’s plant.

8 HappyWarrior  Oct 29, 2014 8:27:56am

re: #7 team_fukit

I used to teach introductory “Western” courses in some state college religion departments and invariably each semester on one my student evaluations someone would write something to the effect that I was trying to convert the class to Islam even though my perspective about all of the religions we studied was quite secular and outsiderish.

To many, I fear that if you aren’t calling Muslims pedophiles, murderers or crazy terrorists then you must be Huma Abedin’s plant.

Just imagine their reaction if you brought up that Christ is a prophet in Islam or that Allah is merely Arabic for God and that Arab Christians say Allah too.

9 team_fukit  Oct 29, 2014 9:00:44am

re: #8 HappyWarrior

Yeah I always started off with the ancient near eastern stuff: sumerians, akkadians, egyptians, israelites, canaanites, babylonians, persians, etc. Then I’d connect Judaism to the ancient Israelites/canaannites; and then connect Christianity and Islam to the foundations and exilic changes in Judaism along with pagan European and Arabian traditions.

And yeah, when I taught that down South (I grew up in South Carolina), some of evangelical heads exploded when I pointed out that Allah is linguistically the same form of “El” - the father of the Canaanite gods whose name was shared among Canaanites and Israelites (in the so-called Pentatuechal “E” tradition). Things got even more interesting when I told them ancient Ugaritic stories about how El loved to drink and stumble home from banquets, and that he had a male body (with a penis) that is sometimes alluded to in the Hebrew Bible.

Nothing gets ‘em riled up like talking about God’s dick (and it’s theological implications).

Now I’m teaching US history courses at a fashion college.


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