"Liberty University, a right wing school created by a segregationist who opened whites-only schools, fined $14million for covering up on-campus rapes."
Also hey fun fact the Liberty University Online Academy has a lesson on suicide and how it is bad without giving any crisis resources and just giving you bible verses. Fucking abhorrent and irresponsible. Wish I had a screenshot of this shit but I remember it so vividly.
I also had to read the sex scene in Paradise Lost as an example of a "good" way to have sex in marriage. Literal required reading was smut. Not as if that was heavily triggering and I was crying to the point I just guessed on all the lesson answers because I could not read it due to my own sexual trauma.
As many of you know, I have been working on my masters and only had one class to go. If any of you where blessed to be in the mind melt with me you know that I blessed so many with my therapy that you had to go and seek one-on-one counseling. Which that in it self was good. After that I was under the watchful eye of Dr. Sherry, therapist to the stars and she was able to get me some hands on experience. A lot of other therapist who wanted to meet me and see if I was the real deal came to me to help me with therapy. Most received hours and supervision by Dr. Sherry and a few got the boot because they weren't there to help they were just there to get the hours. I turned them away. This will help in me getting my Master's in Human Services at Liberty University. I will more then likely be a inspirational speaker like Iyanla Vanzant. Who inspires and motivates.
Jerry Falwell Sr was a homophobic televangelist whose endorsement helped Ronald Reagan (a divorced former Hollywood actor) beat Jimmy Carter (a Baptist Sunday school teacher) in the 1980 presidential contest and launch a conservative project that culminated in the demise of the constitutional right to abortion.
As an Alumni, I have a great deal of concern over the lack of leadership over the past 12+ years at Liberty University. Jerry Prevo and the entire board knew something was tremendously wrong in the behaviors of Jerry Falwell Jr., yet only one board member had the courage to resign. That person was Mark DeMoss.
Dr. Jerry Falwell Senior used to say the following, relentlessly in chapel when I was a student, 1976-1980.
"Everything rises and falls on leadership."
The fact that the bored ignored red flags including massive hotel bills, jet plane and travel expenses to begin with, has cost LU in huge ways. The Trust of LU is now gone. This could have been prevented.
The entire board and Prevo need to resign and be replaced.
Warning: mentions of Sexual Assault, links to professional articles that describe sex scandals, rape, and murder.
It has come to my attention that the online school I attend (you may have heard of it, Liberty University) has been heavily involved in the silencing of Sexual Assault victims, racism, discrimination, and more (Links to various articles as well as the wikipedia page at the bottom of this post).
I am already enrolled in online classes so there is not anything I can do currently (I’m working towards my associates degree), I want everyone to know that I was not aware of this and I am positive that if my parents knew of this they would not want me on Campus (I trust my parents and don’t try to tell me otherwise). Overall this absolutely disgusts me that they have the audacity to call themselves a Christian Institute when all they’re doing is spreading even more hate and disgust towards Christians. I want to reiterate that I am Christian, these people at LU who are allowing this to happen obviously have a twisted mindset of what Christianity is. Even though they may say they believe in God and have accepted Jesus as their savior it does not always show through their actions. I know this won’t fix any pain that LU has caused victims in the past but I would still like to express that I am extremely sorry that you had to go through that, and it is understandable that that may have damaged your faith severely. However, I ask that you understand that not all Christians are like this, there are just those people that make everyone else look horrible and disgusting and perpetuate an awful stereotype. I don’t quite know how to conclude this post other than just to emphasize that I had no prior knowledge of this and I will not be attending in person (I had thoughts but now it just puts a horrible taste in my mouth and it makes me so uncomfortable to think about.)
(P.S: this post may not be as coherent due to the fact that I had just found all of this out today and I am not in a state where I can put it all out on paper just yet, to be honest I could give a whole essay on this and how shocking it is. If this happened in 2014 I would think “Well that’s not okay at all but at least they’re trying to fix things so it won’t happen again” BUT THERE ARE ARTICLES FROM 3 WEEKS AGO ABOUT THIS CRAP! Anyways stay safe, God bless and have a great rest of your day/week 💜)
Sarah Zang hoped to escape her highly controlled home life in 2006.She enrolled as a student at Liberty University in Virginia. She looked forward to making her own decisions, free of her parents’ strict rules. Liberty University, a Christian college, seemed like the perfect haven, promising safety and a community that shared her values.
— John Verner
Read the rest of the article on Substack…
A WutBJU reader passed along this lengthy quotation from Kevin Roose's book, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University. Doesn't THIS sound familiar?
Another worrisome statement came during a guest lecture in my Evangelism 101 class by one of Liberty’s campus pastors. At the end of the lecture, the pastor addressed the two hundred–plus students in my class this way: “I just want to say this, Liberty students. My biggest worry about you, about all of you, is that you’ll become educated beyond your obedience.” This, too, struck me as depressing. What he was saying, in effect, is that there’s a cap on a Liberty education, a point at which knowledge becomes dangerous rather than useful. And once you’re aware that some Liberty administrators feel this way—or at least one Liberty administrator feels this way—the signs appear everywhere you look. You realize that the reason Liberty’s GNED professors cherry-pick quotes from Kant and Nietzsche and insert them in workbooks rather than assigning entire texts is that reading non-Christian philosophers in the originals might cause some Liberty students to stumble in their faith. You start looking back at Liberty’s institutional history and realizing why, for example, the school library wasn’t built until a regional accreditation board mandated it. And you start to wonder if the Facebook joke, “You know you went to Liberty if . . . you learned more about tithing than your major,” might actually have a kernel of truth to it. It’s not that there aren’t smart people here. In fact, with very few exceptions, I’ve been impressed by how bright and intellectually engaged my Liberty friends are. The problem is in the system. Liberty is a place where professors aren’t allowed to take chances with their course material. It’s a place where academic rigor is sacrificed on the altar of uninterrupted piety, where the skills of exploration, deconstruction, and doubt—all of which should be present at an institution that bills itself as a liberal arts college—are systematically silenced in favor of presenting a clear, unambiguous political and spiritual agenda.
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