Comments on: Christian High School Student Sues his Teacher for "Anti-Christian" Remarks

By: nosetam

nosetam — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:00:16 +0000

I agree that the term “Jesus glasses” is inexcusable in any context. If the guy’s problem is with the institutuional church or narrow-minded Christians, why didn’t he attribute the glasses to them rather than “Jesus”? I’ll tell you why: because he knows the most hurtful thing you can do to a Christian is to mock Jesus, the centre of their faith.

The guy may lack objectivity and balance, but he is a historian, for goodness sake. He’s bound to know that Jesus in his own lifetime decried the kind of corrupt religious forces which later so abused Europe, and that these were the types of powers that were actually responsible for Jesus’ own execution. The only motive Corbett could have in personally associating such religious blindness with Jesus is, as I said, to hurt Christians.

I am a Christian and I can take the church’s and my own hypocrisies contradictions being attacked – to be honest, I’m surprised we don’t get more of it – but when people like Corbett bring Jesus into it, it says more about them than it does about us.

By: pistolpete

pistolpete — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:04:22 +0000

While I can’t conceive of a context where the “Jesus glasses” comment could be appropriate within a class setting, I also agree a lawsuit is both a silly and ineffective way of dealing with the situation. There no doubt is anti-Christian sentiment within public schools and academia, but the best response is not to “fight back”, but to turn the other cheek and grow in faith in spite of whatever ridicule might come.

By: James McGrath

James McGrath — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:42:22 +0000

Presumably the kid and his parents had recently been reading the part in the Book of Acts about how Paul sued the Philippians for wrongful imprisonment…

Oh, wait a minute, that’s not what it says!