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Death threat florist fired over email
AN EMPLOYEE of 1-800-Flowers.com, the US equivalent of Interflora, has been fired for allegedly sending death threats to an evolutionist boffin.
Paul Myers, an associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota, who is famous for his criticism of religion and creationism, got the email from Melanie Kroll at 1-800-Flowers.com which is an online floral delivery service.
The email gave Myers until the first of the month to resign from his position at the University, "for the good of the children… or you can get your brains beat in".
The next day, Kroll sent Myers an email which said that, while the threat was sent from her computer, she didn't write it. She said she was sorry and will look into it.
However after an internal investigation, 1-800-Flowers.com decided to fire her on the grounds that she 'misused company systems or equipment for personal purposes'.
Myers wrote in his bog that the Eucharist wafer was "just a cracker" and was swamped with hate mail from angry Catholics.
After a while he was so miffed with the level of threatening e-mail from people who claimed to worship a God of love and forgiveness that he started posting full technical details of the messages, including the IP addresses. µ
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Her husband was the one who sent the threat. He admits it, but of course tries to lay the blame for his wife losing her job on everyone else.

Bloody loonies.
Funny how these religious nutjobs are always threatening violence upon anyone who dares voice an opposing opinion. So much for love thy neighbour.
...when these loonies can't bend the rules of their religion to believe the earth is more than 5000 years old, but will happily bend the rules enough to contemplate a grey matter main course!
Actually it turns out that Jesus Christ is just another ancient mythological character. "The God Who Wasn't There" (good movie) explains a lot. Apparently the myth of Christ borrows heavily from characters such as Hercules, Osiris, even Buddha, amongst dozens more. Chrazy Chrazy Christians!
Folks like this who insist on creationism etc and violently defend it give reasonable religious people a bad name.

I consider myself a christian but believe in evolution, know that the universe is many billions of years old, believe -STRONGLY- in religious freedom, which includes everyone's right not to practice religion if they chose not to, and believe in whatever they like, but am disgusted when folks jump out and try to demand that others ahere to their myopic views.