What You Learn At Liberty U

[pstokely]

http://rightwingwatch.com/content/what-you-learn-liberty

[Catshrink]

1. Indoctrination, pure and simple.

Where's the critical thinking and analysis? Oops, my bad. Those are much too dangerous.

[JohnnyBoots]

3. I hear Fred Phelps is going to be a visiting professor next year.

Kidding of course...but not by that much.

[peacetalksforall]

2. Is their University title valid? You can see superiority-inferiority - it reigns throughout

the Republican Party. If I had the time I would create a fill-in-the-blanks superiority-inferiority test demonstrating where it occurs.

[Soylent Brice]

5. unfortunately, they are somehow accredited to the highest degree:

REGIONAL ACCREDITATION STATUS: Accredited
INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITATION: (SACS COC) Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
BEGIN: 1/1/1980 END: STATUS: Accredited

(TRACS) Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools, Accreditation Commission
BEGIN: 9/1/1984 END: STATUS: Accredited


SPECIALIZED ACCREDITATION: American Bar Association, Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
BEGIN: 7/1/2006 END: STATUS: Accredited

Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
BEGIN: 10/9/2004 END: STATUS: Accredited

National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
BEGIN: 10/26/2003 END: STATUS: Accredited

http://collegesource.org/displayinfo/profile.asp?institutionid=12696

[peacetalksforall]

8. Those examples are seventh grade. Pathetic. However, I'm sure there

out of context and I would be able to see the brilliance of the fill-in-the-blanks if I took the course. With all due sarcasm.

Regrettably, they will still probably keep finding jobs within local and state governments and the media and military so they can get their doctrine planted throughout the country.

[Soylent Brice]

11. you'd be surprised exactly how many institutions reflect this one,

and are consistently pumping out morans abroad.

[pstokely]

14. Bob Jones has no accreditation

nt

[arcadian]

4. Gay sex at porn shops?

Do they offer hetero sex at porn shops too? I know they cover both genres in their film titles.

[gratuitous]

6. Free motto suggestion

Liberty University: Putting the "loco" in "in loco parentis."

[Hell Hath No Fury]

7. This is the most dangerous of the Crazy "Christians" attacks.

They tried activism and they failed. They tried politics and they failed.

The one thing that has protected us from their varied attempts at imposing their radical attempts towards theocracy has been our legal system. They recognized that, and Liberty was born. :(

First they will become lawyers. Then they will become judges. And then they will start handing down rulings.

And then the really scary part starts. :scared:

[tabbycat31]

9. I actually bought a textbook off some dude at Liberty

I didn't know it until he emailed me to make sure I got it (it was an Amazon transaction). I found it kinda strange, but he made a good transaction, shipped it fast, and wished me success in the course.

It's more than I can say about most Amazon sellers.

[Jane Eyre]

10. I've worked with Liberty U. grads before

Also Bob Jones University grads, always in finance-type positions. I have to say that they are very professional, congenial and results-oriented, and I've never known their religion to be an issue in the workplace.

I totally disagree with their religious philosophy, but I've never encountered any problems with them on a professional level.

[pstokely]

12. Maybe they they didn't have a choice

Maybe parents will only pay to send their kids to fundie "universities."

[Are_grits_groceries]

13. I just finished reading "Unlikely Disciple" by Kevin Roose.

He is a student at Brown University who enrolled at Liberty for a semester to get a first hand look at the university. He was brought up as a Quaker, and a friend of his gave him lessons in the evangelical doctrine so that he could even begin to pass. I would recommend reading it. I believe he gives a good description of the school and those who enroll there. The students are at once more complex, and yet in some ways as simple as one might expect.