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The University of Kansas was scheduled to have a class entitled "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and Other Religious Mythologies" in the upcoming spring semester. Aside from equating intelligent design and creationism with mythology, I am impressed that KU would support having such a class. That is, until Paul Mirecki, head of the school's Religion Department and scheduled teacher of the class, wrote some emails including the following:

"The fundies (fundamentalist Christians) want it all taught in a science class, but this will be a nice slap in their big fat face by teaching it as a religious studies class under the category ‘'mythology,'"” Mirecki wrote.

In one of the new e-mails, Mirecki wrote: “"I don'’t think most Catholics really know what they are supposed to believe, they just go home and use condoms and some of them beat their wives and husbands."

KU canceled the course. My question is this: Should this guy be teaching religion? He has a doctorate of theology from Harvard, but apparently it didn't change him much. What do you think? Should he be teaching religion in a public (or any) university?