LIBERTY UNIVERSITY is the world’s largest Evangelical Christian university. This shocking promotional video illustrates how white Christians are in the thrall of the worst of crotch-grabbing, anarchic black culture. Check out the anti-mugging at the end of the video, and the white youth uplifted and enlightened by his exposure to a rap hymn.

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Michael S. writes:

“Ell-yoo”?

More like “Ell, no!”

Brandon B. writes:

The Liberty University rap video does not surprise me in the least bit. I came to know Christ two years ago, joined a Baptist congregation, and became part of Evangelical Christian culture. Since then I have begun to realize how many Evangelicals and their institutions have capitulated to popular culture and the “zeitgeist” of modernity. The mainline Protestant churches have all but surrendered to liberalism and I can assure you the Evangelicals are not too far behind. Case in point: I live 15 minutes away from Denver Seminary, an Evangelical graduate institution. I originally planned on pursing a Master’s degree in Philosophy of Religion there. I thought it would be a good conservative place to study. Until I read their academic rule book. One of the “rules” for written papers at the Seminary is the PC use of gender neutral language. Plus there is a major emphasis on “multiculturalism” and “thinking global.”

Jesse Powell writes:

 The student demographics of Liberty University are 52% women and 48% men; (excluding race unknown) 74% non-Hispanic white, 16% black, 4% Hispanic, 1.5% Asian, and 5.5% other (mostly foreign students). In the mission statement of Liberty University it says:

 “To develop Christ-centered men and women with the values, knowledge, and skills essential to impact tomorrow’s world. The mission is carried out for resident students through a rigorous academic program and structured social environment.”

I hope the college takes the “structured social environment” part of its mission statement seriously, contrary to the impression created in its promotional video. Interestingly, even though the mood of the video is anarchic and “exciting” the lyrics include an explanation of some of the rules of the University:

 Starting at 0:56 “got some rules and regulations, it ain’t nutting too tough, understand it’s the plain thrills integrity in us, yeah we have that curfew, no it will not hurt you, you call it rules we call it structure, holiness we pursue”

 Starting at 1:59 “without a doubt, our mission’s more precious than pearls, we’re the most exciting university in the world”

 Starting at 2:48 “no sex drugs or drinking, we define what’s cool”

 I’m thinking the rap dancing promotional video starring the black rapper on the one hand may be specifically geared to recruit black students since blacks make up a significant part of the student body, and on the other hand is meant to combat the image that Liberty University is stifling and boring.

 With most of the student at LU being women, like at most colleges, I wonder if any effort is made to teach appropriate gender roles for men and women. It’s good that apparently “hooking up” is prohibited but with half the students being women that contradicts the message that men should be the providers for and caretakers of women and instead fits with the “gender equality” feminist message of the wider culture.

 The promotional video LU is using does contradict the moral messages LU claims it promotes. I guess it’s a question of which “value system” is stronger, the one implied by the video or the one embodied in the college’s rules and regulations.

Laura writes:

When adults and teachers openly contradict themselves, they essentially teach a form of nihilism and cynicism. College students are not stupid.

Sound and body language communicate with greater immediacy than words. This “music” is animalistic, a throbbing evocation of copulation. This is an ad for a university, a place of learning. Even if the words say that students must retire into monastic cells every night by 9 p.m., the sound, the motions and the mob convey raw, unleashed anarchy.

LU worships the Noble Savage and the Competent Woman (notice the apathy, immaturity and almost drugged stupor of the white boy) far more than it worships Christ.

There is no reason, by the way, to pander to the lowest in black culture to recruit black students.

Charles T. writes:

Laura writes:

 LU worships the Noble Savage and the Competent Woman (notice the apathy, immaturity and almost drugged stupor of the white boy) far more than it worships Christ.

This one sentence very accurately describes the state of much of the institutional Christian church in our country. Our church leaders would rather be seen as fashionable than anything else. They have failed as leaders of the Christian church. I recently said in a conversation that I believe our pastors act as if they are ashamed of the Christian faith and that this causes me much despair. Christianity, orthodox Christianity that is , is superior to all other faiths because of the existence and the character of it’s founder. No other faith has such a robust development of the atonement, redemption, forgiveness, and the restoration from the fall that Jesus and the scriptures give to us. And yet, our pastors embrace the Marxist view of egalitarianism and mutli-culturalism. Our pastors, even if they believe Christianity is superior, have knuckled under to the spirits – or rather idols – of our age. I have news for them: the idols of our age are harsh taskmasters.

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