Professor Who Belittled Believers Drops Bid To Head Up a Department

Timothy Shortell has this to say about religious people.

"On a personal level, religiosity is merely annoying - like bad taste," he wrote. "This immaturity represents a significant social problem, however, because religious adherents fail to recognize their limitations. So, in the name of their faith, these moral retards are running around pointing fingers and doing real harm to others. One only has to read the newspaper to see the results of their handiwork. They discriminate, exclude, and belittle. They make a virtue of closed-mindedness and virulent ignorance. They are an ugly, violent lot."

Shortell has never had a problem with getting a check from an institution funded by taxpayers who are religious.Now he's dropping his bid to be chairman of the sociology department.New York Sun