ass,jerk,violent,deranged.

Didn't get it? Hmmmm, the college professor challenges God to prove he is real by way of knocking him off of a platform. The professor is an idiot for challenging something he does not think is real but moving on--

The Marine--fearing that an all-powerful God might be insulted by the antics of an arrogant college professor decides to punch him in the face, knocking him out cold.

The reason? Simple--God was busy protecting the troops overseas so that simple-minded professors would have the freedom to say and think "idiotic things."

The result: The Marine in this story didn't in any way protect the professor's right to say idiotic things. Instead, he knocked him out for actually exercising the very right the Marine insists God is protecting.

Nice, really. I suppose on the surface the point here is that the Marine (and again, I support our men and women in the Armed Forces) did an honorable thing. But dig even a bit deeper and what he really did was commit a felony on a man who challenged a God who didn't need protection in the first place.

-Drew

And all the marines fighting for our freedom of speech.. well I wonder why this one marine felt it necessary to fight against it.... thus doing the opposite of what he claims his brothers in arms are doing.

Exactly. This joke is nothing short of SICK.

It's a disgrace to God as well as to the marines. It only suggests that marines are bigoted fools who have no self-discipline and big egos.

The mere fact that Christians would come to defend this joke is nothing short of scary. It only goes to show the blind mentality they have to follow anything that even remotely claims to be associated with their religion.

Apparently they have no sense of morals at all. They didn't understand the message of Jesus and they would much rather spew hatred in the name of God than love.

Even when I was a Christian I would have denounced a joke like this as being sick. This is not the kind of behavior that was taught at my church. I'm sure that the entire church would denounce this joke as being sick and ungodly. This joke is actually condoning physical violence in the name of bigotry.

Like JB said, "It's a typical Fundamentalist right-wing, go-to-war, Be-a-Christian Joke."

Very sick.

I think the simple question a Christian should ask themselves is this, “Would Jesus have told this joke or even laughed at it”.

I don’t think so. He would see the bigotry and egotism that it is laced will.

Jesus would say to leave the professor alone. Kick the dust from your shoes and get on with your life.

No one has the right to claim that Jesus told them to punch anyone in the face. This joke is a disgrace to the marines as well as to Jesus.

Yet look at the Christians coming to support it? Group mentality to protect what????

Very sad indeed.

Yeah really. Take religion out of it altogether and the marine is still a traitor to his own country.

The cow wishes to second that.

the cow is full of bull

For me, it is unimaginably scary to think that people exist who support the hypothetical marines' actions.

I like that. "Hypothetical marine."

Just think, if all marines were hypothetical, we could have hypothetical wars.

Well, dealing in a hypothetical is much less scary. If that really happened I may be hiding in my room for the rest of my life. Unfortunately my naivety doesn't extend as far to believe that it couldn't happen :-( Such a truly horrible tale.

I liked it. But then I listen to a different drummer.

What exactly did you like about it?

The thought that someone is willing to fight for what they believe even if its wrong and misguided.

So fighting even if it is wrong and misguided is a good thing to you? (as long as it is based on a belief!?!?

Never said it was a good thing, just that I respect for standing up for what you believe in even if the world is against you.

Does that respect extend to Islamic terrorists? or just christian marines?

I respect those who do something about a person who is affecting them. The marine asked for an education not someone spouting their beliefs in a public forum. As for the terrorists, so long as the person they are killing is someone they never met, then I do not respect them. Killing children, no respect for that either. I believe killing in and of itself is wrong. If the professor was up there spouting about how Allah was the worst thing to happen to the world or didn't exist I would have no problem with them decking the Professor.

the democrats of the 40s are not the same as the democrats of today heck even reagan was a democrat before he became a republican

his line was

i did not leave the democratic party it left him

so that comparison is of the target

So is it just because he was a teacher of an unspecified subject (Perhaps it was a philosophy class and part of his curriculum but that is just presumptuous but no more so than you.)so that makes violence allowable? Would being outside the classroom make it different for you?

First of all in a philospwhy class it would not "shock the entire class" second of all, yes, I don't like having somones belief rammed down my throat while I am paying him to teach me, if he was say in the student lounge I would just leave and not listen to him, but instead he chose to speak his beliefs in his class room which in my humble opinion is a trespass of his obligation as a teacher to teach the subject he is paid to do.