Two anti-Christian organizations have singled out a professor at Georgia Southern University, claiming that he is “preaching” in his classroom.
The virulent anti-Christian group Freedom from Religion Foundation and the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science sent a letter to the president of the university stating that Professor Emerson Tom McMullen promotes religion.
“McMullen appears to use at least some of his class to preach religion instead of teach history,” the letter reads. “Our reports and information indicate that McMullen (1) is known for injecting religion into his classes, (2) gives extra credit to students willing to endure and describe additional proselytizing, and (3) uses his position at a public university to promote religious beliefs like creationism, while undermining legitimate sciences, like biology.”
The groups hate the fact that McMullen speaks positively about Christianity.
“McMullen not only lowers the reputation and standards of this university, but has created serious constitutional problems,” the groups wrote. “As a public university, GSU is subject to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which separates state and church. … Creationism cannot be taught as scientific fact in public schools.”
McMullen has an “A” rating from his students and no students had complained about the professor. The University said it is investigating the 24-year veteran teacher because of the anti-Christians targeting him.
A video has been posted online showing Muslim men near Atlanta beating themselves bloody to commemorate the death of Mohammad’s grandson.
The acts come on the Day of Ashura, marking the death of the son of Mohammad’s daughter during a battle in 680 A.D.
The video and photos of the Muslims outside Atlanta shocked viewers with images of infants having their heads cut with knives and men beating themselves until they bleed. They would whip themselves with chains.
“We’ve been doing this since we were kids. I started when I was three,” Mahmoud Jaber, 43, told the Associated Press in 2007. “It doesn’t hurt because the cry of pain goes away with the faith.”
Critics have been demanding to know why the government is not stepping in to protect children who are being cut and beaten.
“If this were happening in the home of an Atlanta resident, the department of child services would take the child from that home as quick as they could. If a family in Atlanta were encouraging their child to beat themselves or cut themselves… the state would not allow it!” writer Onan Coca said. “Yet, because Islam has strangely become some kind of protected cult in our society, we allow these children to be abused right in front of us— in view of the public and even our legal authorities.”
A Georgia school board has given into a group of anti-Christianists who demanded Bible verses be removed from a statue donated to the school.
The virulent anti-Christian group American Humanist Association sent a threatening letter to the school over a monument that was built in August and touched by the school’s football team on the way to the field. The monument has two Bible verses on it.
The school board voted unanimously to give into the anti-Christian group and remove the Bible references because the school’s attorney said it was likely they would lose a court challenge.
“Kirby told board members, in part, that the monument presented some legal problems in connection with the 1971 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lemon v. Kurtzman. The case produced the so-called ‘Lemon test,'” reported Jim Thompson of the Athens Banner-Herald.
“Kirby went on to tell the board that the issues raised by the Madison County High School monument were too similar to other court cases on the establishment clause to believe that the county’s situation might set a new legal precedent …”
The AHA celebrated the removal of Christianity from public.
Two virulent anti-Christian groups’ latest action to try and remove Christians from society is to tell a high school in Georgia they must remove a sculpture because it contains a Bible reference.
The Freedom from Religion Foundation and the American Humanist Association are threatening the Madison County School District in Danielsville, Georgia. The school has a monument outside the field house of the high school that contains Romans 8:31 and Philippians 4:13.
The monument was paid for by private funds.
“The district violates the Constitution when it allows its schools to display religious symbols messages. Schools may not advance, prefer or promote religion,” the letter from anti-Christian FFRF attorney Andrew Seidel asserted. “The Bible verses on this monument violate this basic constitutional prohibition by creating the appearance that the school, and by extension the district, prefer religion to non-religion and Christianity to all other religions.”
The school’s superintendent says they are looking into options including removing the Bible verses or removing the monument.
An anti-Christian organization that harassed a Georgia school district because football coaches were praying with players isn’t satisfied that the head of the school district has banned coaches from praying. Now they’re angry because they think Christians are still a majority.
Hall County Superintendent Will Schofield, caving into to pressure from the anti-Christian American Humanist Association, sent an e-mail to staff members saying that prayer is “off-limits for teachers and coaches” and that students alone can do their own prayers.
“The Hall County School District wholeheartedly defends the almost unlimited rights of students to exercise their religious beliefs,” Schofield wrote. “As long as activities do not infringe upon or disrespect the religious beliefs of others, or disrupt classroom instruction or school routines, students have the right to pray, read religious materials, talk to their classmates about their beliefs, and … form clubs or associations with students who share similar interests.”
The anti-Christianists made it clear their motivation was not really about stopping teachers from praying with students, but the elimination of Christians.
“It is not encouraging that Schofield referred to students’ religious freedom while in school as almost unlimited, as that sends a signal to the community that a culture of Christian predominance can continue,” AHA attorney David Noise wrote. “Based on the extensive feedback that we’ve received from the community, it’s clear that non-Christians feel that the atmosphere of Christian privilege is overwhelming, and the Schofield statement seems more concerned about appeasing the majority than addressing that problem.”
The AHA did not say if they will abandon their threat of a lawsuit.
Residents of Gainesville, Georgia are telling an anti-Christian organization to mind their own business and to quit attempting to bully their children.
The anti-Christian American Humanist Association has been harassing the Chestatee High School officials and students because of the football team’s staff participating in team prayers and for religious messages appearing at times in team documents.
Over 200 people showed up for an unplanned prayer rally in the middle of the football field Wednesday morning with a simple message: stay out of our town.
“I am a mom of two of the football players on the CHS football team and I consider it an honor and a privilege to have my boys on a team that is led by men that believe and trust in God,” a woman said. “I think it’s a shame for one person to try and take that away from them.”
The anti-Christianists say that offenses include coaches “having clasped hands with players” while prayers were taking place and that cheerleaders once held a banner that said “Iron sharpens iron, Proverbs 21:17.”
“The liberal atheist interest groups trying to bully Chestatee High School kids say they have a reason to believe that expressions of religious freedom are ‘not an isolated event’ in Northeast Georgia,” Congressman Doug Collins wrote in a statement to Fox News. “They’re right. In Hall County and throughout Georgia’s 9th district, we understand and respect the Constitution and cherish our right to worship in our own way.”
Collins said it was interesting that the American Humanist Association is focusing on harassing Christian students at the same time Christians are being killed in Iraq for simply being Christians.
“It’s utterly disgusting that while innocent lives are being lost in Iraq and other places at the hands of radical religious terrorists, a bunch of Washington lawyers are finding the time to pick on kids in Northeast Georgia,” he said.
Two American missionaries who contracted the Ebola virus while working to help the African victims of the disease are being brought to the United States.
Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol are being flown to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. The two will be held in a very strictly controlled wing of the hospital inside a chamber with negative pressure keeping air inside the wing.
Both of the patients are said to be in grave but stable condition.
The patients are reportedly going to be transferred on a special plane chartered by the CDC that has isolation pods. The move comes on the heels of an experimental treatment being sent to Liberia. Dr. Brantley refused to take it and demanded it be given to Nancy Writebol.
The CDC issued a warning to travelers to avoid Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Samaritan’s Purse, SIM and the Peace Corps are all pulling their volunteers from those countries because of the uncontrolled outbreak of the virus.
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal has signed a law that prohibits any health plan being sold in the state from including abortion coverage.
The law includes any policy that is sold through the federal health care exchange website.
“No abortion coverage shall be provided by a qualified health plan offered within the State of Georgia through a state law, federal law or regulation or exchange created by the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” the bill reads. The move will bar any taxpayer dollars from funding abortions because of a subsidized health care policy.
“Given the fact that the majority of Americans do not want to pay for abortions, it’s vital to restrain the influence of the abortion industry that has been enriched by taxpayer funds,” Dr. Charmaine Yoest of American United for Life said.
Many states have passed laws requiring people to purchase a special rider for health care plans if they wish to have abortion included under their health insurance.
The most recent Abortion Surveillance report has been released by the Centers for Disease Control and is showing a very disturbing trend among women in Georgia who are choosing to end the lives of their babies via abortion.
The data, from 2010, is the latest available from the CDC and shows that 53.6% of the babies killed via abortion in Georgia are black. That number is 2.5 times larger than the number of white babies who die via abortion during the data year.
The reason the percentage of black babies to white babies killed is shocking is because the population of the state is almost 63% white. Only 31% of Georgia’s 2012 population is black.
The study also showed that while the number of abortions for all racial demographics were down in 2010, the decrease was significantly less for black women than any other racial group.
However, critics of the report note that the study cannot be truly representative of the entire nation as California, one of the country’s largest states and one of the largest abortion providing states, refuses to report their data for the official CDC abortion survey.
The second winter storm in two weeks is likely to bring “crippling ice totals” to Atlanta and parts of the east coast Wednesday.
The National Weather Service said some areas could end up with 18 inches of precipitation as a result of Winter Storm Pax. While most of the Carolinas will receive snow, Georgia officials are preparing for up to an inch of ice.
Over 86,000 residents in the southeast have already lost power because of the storm and tens of thousands likely will lose power before the end of the day Wednesday.
Seven deaths have been directly attributed to the storm. Over 75 percent of the flights from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport were canceled due to the weather. The number is expected to climb through the day Wednesday.
Alabama and Georgia were under states of emergency because of the storm. Alabama officials reported ice starting to build up on vehicles and power lines early Wednesday morning as the storm moves east. In some parts of Georgia, a half inch of ice has already accumulated on trees and power lines before the bulk of the storm.
National Guard troops in Georgia are on stand by to evacuate nursing homes or hospitals if power lines go down. Georgia officials say it’s possible to have “catastrophic” problems with the power grid.
