Is Liberty University a Fundamentalist School?

[Ricardo]

Funny! You know, when someone tells me they are from a church I'm not familiar with, say "Rose of Sharon Church," I usually ask them their opinion of Billy Graham: Conservative or liberal?

Most of our non-cult surviving friends just can't get their minds around the fact that for some people, Billy Graham is just a few degrees short of Communism. And Falwell a liberal...

[Donb123]

(01-15-2012 10:29 AM)Ricardo Wrote:  Funny! You know, when someone tells me they are from a church I'm not familiar with, say "Rose of Sharon Church," I usually ask them their opinion of Billy Graham: Conservative or liberal?

Most of our non-cult surviving friends just can't get their minds around the fact that for some people, Billy Graham is just a few degrees short of Communism. And Falwell a liberal...

How would you answer it? I don't classify him as either. His entire ministry was focused on his version of altar call evangelism. He didn't spend a lot of time moralizing. He encouraged people to go to the local church of their choice- regardless of the brand- working closely with Orthodox, Catholics, etc., in host countries. As an advisor to presidents he generally stayed above the political fray.

So yeah, if you call him liberal you might be a fundy but if you call him conservative that's a problem too, imho.

[aisforazebra]

I went to Liberty very recently, and would not call it fundamentalist. Conservative, yeah. Heavy political emphasis, which annoyed the crap out of me. Sometimes I think politics and money are more important to them than God. But they are not fundy.

[redbeardiam]

(01-15-2012 02:17 PM)aisforazebra Wrote:  I went to Liberty very recently, and would not call it fundamentalist. Conservative, yeah. Heavy political emphasis, which annoyed the crap out of me. Sometimes I think politics and money are more important to them than God. But they are not fundy.

I heard last year from a friend that the politics obsession had gotten worse the last couple years under Jerry Jr.

[Ricardo]

Billy Graham: In the church I grew up in, he was just about right. not too conservative, not liberal.

[aisforazebra]

(01-15-2012 03:14 PM)redbeardiam Wrote:  

(01-15-2012 02:17 PM)aisforazebra Wrote:  I went to Liberty very recently, and would not call it fundamentalist. Conservative, yeah. Heavy political emphasis, which annoyed the crap out of me. Sometimes I think politics and money are more important to them than God. But they are not fundy.

I heard last year from a friend that the politics obsession had gotten worse the last couple years under Jerry Jr.

I've been gone for a year. But when I was there (Jan '09 - Dec '10), it just got progressively more annoying. Luckily for me, I am old (was 25 when I started), and lived off-campus, so I was able to bypass a lot of it - the politically-oriented convo speakers, etc. Still. I heard that Jerry Jr once told parents that the school would make their kids into "champions for the Republican party." Idk if that's true, but it wouldn't surprise me.

I came in having just voted for Obama in the last pres election, and the longer I stayed and was surrounded by the right-wing nuttiness, the more liberal I became. Oh, and the "creation studies" class turned me from someone who was open to either possibility, to believing that there is absolutely nothing scientific about creation theory (as they present it).

[Master_Of_Irony]

haha i wouldn't mind going to liberty if my only other option was bob jones, but it wouldn't be my first choice. i'd much rather go to a state school or even a more recognized religious school like baylor or biola. my parents were going to make me go to pensacola for awhile but i convinced them otherwise. at least for now. back on subject. compared to bob jones, maranatha, pensacola, and west coast, liberty is not very conservative (trust me i heard about it every chapel for three years in fundy high). but to anybody outside of independent baptist fundamentalism, they are very much fundy. and who knows, maybe they are.