'No God' comment adds up to no job for fired math teacher
A math teacher fired from a Fort Dodge Catholic school because she joined an atheist website and noted on Facebook that she didn't believe in God said Friday she never imagined it would lead to her losing her job.
Now, there are many dimensions to this news. First of all, what is a person who doesn’t believe in God (a.k.a. atheist) working for a catholic school? Kind of hypocritical, if you ask me. On the other hand, our economy is not letting us to be picky when it comes to choose jobs. Whatever it is, my take is that such opinion is to be left to the person.
Second, isn’t the school overstepping its boundaries by digging on other people’s personal life? This reminds me of rule in my catholic school, “the school is not responsible for action committed out of it, but has the right to judge them”, very convenient. The teacher did not do anything in public, nor was promoting her lack of belief to the students. Is that a reason to punish her? Hell no.
On the other hand, what could the school have done? Do as if it didn’t know? Wouldn’t have been bad. Then wait until she starts proselytizing her views, and then punish her, since those are the rules that school has, rules she accepted when she took the job.
What could be more outrageous is that she is been denied unemployment benefits. Imagine, after her privacy is somehow violated, after she is judged by that in a pretty discriminatory way, she can’t collect unemployment benefits. Damn Catholics.
However, I can’t feel very bad for her. Even though she says she doesn’t want to work for another catholic school, she says that “she isn’t an atheist”, even though she just said she doesn’t believe in God. A little bit more consistency would have been nice
Los agnósticos tampoco creen en Dios. Y ella pudo estarse refiriendo al dios cristiano cuando decía que no creía en Dios, pero quizás sí creía en alguna otra "fuerza sobrenatural", por eso dice que no es atea.
ReplyDeleteY disculpa pero por qué necesariamente tiene que ser hipócrita el ser ateo y trabajar en una institución con afiliación religiosa? Es un colegio, no una iglesia, se trata muchos más temas q la religión. Entre mis principios de atea está "respetar las creencias ajenas y no mezclarlas con el trabajo", no veo la hipocrecía ahí. Sólo se trata de poder convivir en paz. Claro, muy aparte de q a ningun profe de colegio le sobran las ofertas de trabajo como para ponerse exquisito con lo que escoge.
Si mal no recuerdo, a la hora de inscribirse en Atheist Nexus, uno declara no creer en Dios. Ahora, pudo ella ser agnóstica? Por supuesto, pero no creo que eso cambie mucho el asunto, y en cualquier caso, pudo haber declarado tal cosa, pero aun así, la escuela la despidió.
ReplyDeleteAhora, por qué me parece hipoócrita el trabajar en un colegio religioso siendo ateo, o sin creer en Dios? Sería algo así como trabajar en PR para Coca Cola cuando uno prefiere Pepsi. Debe ser eso causa de despido? No lo creo, a menos que uno vaya al trabajo y diga "La Pepsi es mejor que la Coca", más aun si se ha firmado un papel a la hora de aceptar el trabajo declarando la preferencia por la Coca Cola.