Lying for Jesus

A New Jersey high school history teacher, Daniel Paszkiewicz, who is also a Baptist minister (I know--he doesn't sound very Baptist) was accused by a 16-year-old student of preaching in the classroom. The student, Matthew LaClair, said that Paszkiewicz told the class:

He (God) did everything in his power to make sure that you could go to heaven, so much so that he took your sin on his own body, suffered your pains for you and he's saying, "Please accept me, believe me."

If you reject that, you belong in hell. The outcome is your prerogative. But the way I see it, God himself sent his only son to die for David Paszkiewicz on that cross...And if you reject that, then it really is to hell with you.

Paszkiewicz also said that evolution and the Big Bang theory were "unscientific."

LaClair wanted to complain about his teacher, but thought no one would believe him. But he went ahead, and Paszkiewicz denied that he had ever mixed religion with teaching. According to LaClair, the adults in the room appeared to believe him. Unfortunately for Paszkiewicz, though, LaClair had made cds of his teacher's rantings, which he then produced from his backpack.

The school superintendent said that "corrective action" would be taken.