FULL LETTER CAN BE READ HERE:
http://www.okwu.edu/blog/2015/11/this-is-not-a-day-care-its-a-university/
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This is Not a Day Care. It’s a University!
Dr. Everett Piper, President
Oklahoma Wesleyan University
This past week, I actually had a student come forward after a university chapel service and complain because he felt “victimized” by a sermon on the topic of 1 Corinthians 13. It appears that this young scholar felt offended because a homily on love made him feel bad for not showing love! In his mind, the speaker was wrong for making him, and his peers, feel uncomfortable.
I’m not making this up. Our culture has actually taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic! Any time their feelings are hurt, they are the victims! Anyone who dares challenge them and, thus, makes them “feel bad” about themselves, is a “hater,” a “bigot,” an “oppressor,” and a “victimizer.”
I have a message for this young man and all others who care to listen. That feeling of discomfort you have after listening to a sermon is called a conscience! An altar call is supposed to make you feel bad! It is supposed to make you feel guilty! The goal of many a good sermon is to get you to confess your sins — not coddle you in your selfishness. The primary objective of the Church and the Christian faith is your confession, not your self-actualization!
So here’s my advice:
If you want the chaplain to tell you you’re a victim rather than tell you that you need virtue, this may not be the university you’re looking for. If you want to complain about a sermon that makes you feel less than loving for not showing love, this might be the wrong place.
If you’re more interested in playing the “hater” card than you are in confessing your own hate; if you want to arrogantly lecture, rather than humbly learn; if you don’t want to feel guilt in your soul when you are guilty of sin; if you want to be enabled rather than confronted, there are many universities across the land (in Missouri and elsewhere) that will give you exactly what you want, but Oklahoma Wesleyan isn’t one of them.
At OKWU, we teach you to be selfless rather than self-centered. We are more interested in you practicing personal forgiveness than political revenge. We want you to model interpersonal reconciliation rather than foment personal conflict. We believe the content of your character is more important than the color of your skin. We don’t believe that you have been victimized every time you feel guilty and we don’t issue “trigger warnings” before altar calls.
Oklahoma Wesleyan is not a “safe place”, but rather, a place to learn: to learn that life isn’t about you, but about others; that the bad feeling you have while listening to a sermon is called guilt; that the way to address it is to repent of everything that’s wrong with you rather than blame others for everything that’s wrong with them. This is a place where you will quickly learn that you need to grow up!
This is not a day care. This is a university!
Just the voice of one. The others are bowing down to the great god of political correctness.
Finally someone fights the Toddler Brigade. I bet their pacifiers fell out of their mouths when they read this.
Clearly, this university president is a “safe space denier”!
The future of America. Thank you American academia for turning the spines and minds of young Americans into mush.
How long before liberals start calling for him to resign. I can see the liberal professors and students staging a walk out for his “hateful” words.....
I had expected one of those Pauling tirades against unnatural acts, then I looked up 1 Corinthians 13 (Douay-Rheims):
[1] If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. [2] And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. [3] And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. [4] Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up; [5] Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil;
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth; [7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. [8] Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge shall be destroyed. [9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. [10] But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
[11] When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child. [12] We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known. [13] And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.
It is a BEAUTIFUL passage. It is one of the last I would have tagged for being problematic (especially compared to someo f the other stuff in Corinthians, not to mention law books in the OT!)
So are we to reject charity (caritas, sometimes rendered “love”)? Are we to embrace iniquity? Cling to childhood?
Amazing.
Nice. But I wish it were a bigger named university. Harvard or Yale or heck even Florida State would be more effective then this little university. Oh well at least it is a very small start.
Standing up to the snowflakes bookmark.
I bet he gets forced out soon.
At some point the administrators of the high-rent playpens are going to wake up to the fact that this sort of stuff is incredibly corrosive to academic reputation. For certain schools that may not matter; for others already creaking under the strain of increasing tuition and massive student loans, it may begin to matter where it didn't before.
bttt
So let me see if I have got this right. Parents are supposed to spend the first five years of the life of a child getting them ready to enter the public education system. Then the next fifteen years are spent in retrograde operations making them suitable for recess and naps again. Right?