Teachers at Corona religious school dismissed for incompatible beliefs

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Teachers at Corona religious school dismissed for incompatible beliefs

10:07 PM PDT on Monday, August 9, 2010

By DAVID OLSON
The Press-Enterprise

Differences in religious belief and biblical interpretation have led a Corona Christian school to dismiss four teachers and seven other employees. snip

Most of the fired employees belong to the Catholic Church, which has key teachings that conflict with those of the conservative evangelical Crossroads Christian Schools and the adjacent Crossroads Christian Church, which with about 8,000 members is among the Inland area's largest churches. snip

Crossroads is not anti-Catholic, said the Rev. Chuck Booher, senior pastor of the church. But some fundamental Catholic beliefs and practices -- such as praying to saints and the belief that the wine and wafer in communion become Christ's blood and body -- are not in line with Crossroads' teachings, he said.

In addition, Crossroads views only full-body-immersion baptism as valid, based upon interpretations of Biblical verses. Most of the 11 dismissed employees had not undergone baptism by immersion, Frobisher said.

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It doesn't say but this is in California.

[Codeine]

1. The Inland Empire -- a red blight in a blue state. nt

[Initech]

5. My town isn't too far from there - and it's also as red as it gets.

[dkf]

2. I was just talking to a friend about how out of line Christianity has become with the teachings of

Jesus. Would he have condoned this pettiness? Ridiculous

[gratuitous]

3. This is what private schools with non-union staff can do

And these minutiae have been causing controversy in Christianity almost from the get-go. The scene in Life of Brian, where Brian is fleeing the mob that wants to make him the messiah, is pretty true to what happens with Christians. You may remember that Brian, having inadvertently bought a gourd from a street merchant, hands it off to one of the crowd as it's beginning to form into the mob. The woman who receives the gourd intones, awestruck, "This is His gourd!" The crowd grows, and Brian realizes he's in trouble and takes off. As he's running, he loses one of his sandals, and the mob stops momentarily to mull over what this might mean. Factions develop immediately, some following the gourd, others the sandal. And factions develop within the factions, as the sandal group debates whether it means everyone should walk around with one sandal or perhaps that they should all gather sandals.

The upshot is that when workers don't have any rights, they can be shit-canned for any offense employers dream up. It certainly is a good deal for employers, but it's pretty shitty for workers, who are always looking over their shoulder, wondering if they've committed some heretofore unknown offense. As an added bonus, the employer gets to gripe about how hard it is to find good help anymore.

[kenny blankenship]

4. Don't they know that unless you're fully sunk in the waters of the River Jordan it doesn't count?!?!

You have be fully immersed -they got that part right- but the water of the Jordan is the only effective baptismal agent. You have to inhale a good quantity into your lungs as well, and swallow a gallon, or you aren't baptized on the inside, just the outside. Not only is baptism in any old water ineffective, it is blasphemy! The idolatrous fools will have all eternity in Hell to ponder their doctrinal shortcomings.

[melm00se]

6. Just like to point out that this seems to be a common theme lately

I can think of another case where "incompatible" with a core belief structure was the reason for dismissal.