Posted on 08/19/2006 7:37:01 AM PDT by WVNan
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I think I messed up on the title of thread. It should state that LU was highlighted among three top universities by USNWR. I knew I would mess up something.
I like the "Green Beret training for Christians." Mark my word, the libs will compare it to the Madrassas of the Taliban.
See #3. I've asked the Ad Min to change it. Repentance and flogging are in order of course.
I grew up in Lynchburg, and LU really is an impressive success story. I haven't always agreed with Rev. Falwell about things, and he's not always the most popular man in town, but he's shown excellent stewardship in taking LU from nothing to what it is today in just 35 years. The facilities are first-rate and the school attracts a lot of talent, both religious and secular. And, it's been a hub for a huge amount of development in that end of Lynchburg.
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3rd best ? That'll be the day...
The UCLA coeds are tough to beat. A drive through the campus is most scenic.
This is good news.In the top three.I'm not religous,but i think the country desperately needs more schools where kids(and adults)can get a college education w/out the pc'ness(leftist indoctrination)of the looney left.
Wonderful! I've spent a total of a couple of weeks there for various conferences, and it can get pretty hot and buggy during the summer. The dorms, while adequate, weren't anything to write home about. Which tells me that the quality of the education is what makes this university notable (and not the dorms and weather).
Many established colleges have closed during that time. Lots are on the verge of collapse at the moment. To start from nothing and have 10,000 students is quite a success.
Falwell has never been a favorite of mine, but I am glad to see conservative schools succeed.
Many established colleges have closed during that time. Lots are on the verge of collapse at the moment. To start from nothing and have 10,000 students is quite a success.
Falwell has never been a favorite of mine, but I am glad to see conservative schools succeed.
He corrected it below. Didn't Paul say something about being slow to judge?
And my apologies, as well. Plank in the eye, and all that.
Great job done by the Rev Falwell. He has been vilified from the start by the do-nothing media liberals. I would mention that Harvard, the nations oldest institution of higher learning established in 1635, was also started by a Christian minister. So what is new?
Third best at what? Besides, ucla sucks.
I don't think it's religion so much as a matter of spirituality.
I have a set of McGuffy's Eclectic Readers first published in 1879.
Most of the lessons pertain to values like perseverance and charity.
In the Fourth Reader (page 126), there is a chapter called The Creator.
It ends:
This great Being is God. He made all things, but He is more excellent than all that He has made. He is the Creator, they are his creatures. They may be beautiful, but He is Beauty. They may be strong, but He is Strength. They may be perfect, but He is Perfection.
This tenant wasn't only taught to children because it was Christian, or because it was the 'right' thing to do, but because it is LAW. 'That which you create, you have the right to control' is an old legal adage. The People are inherently superior to the government because WE created IT. We were supposed to control ourselves because restraint is a virtue. It's also why 'People' is capitalized in the preamble to the Constitution as well as the Declaration of Independence.
We hold these rules to be self-evident. Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights
Sound familiar?
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As long as government can get away with morphing 'establishment of religion' into 'separation of church and State' and refuses to acknowledge God and our Christian heritage, the only power it DOES have to acknowledge is whatever it decides it wants.
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Please don't think any of this means you have to be Christian. It just means the law can punish you for violating Commandments 6 to 10. Like the Founders, I believe a persons religion is a matter of personal choice.
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.
George Washington, Address to the Members of the Volunteer Association of Ireland, December 2, 1783
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But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 17, 1782
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