Who (voluntarily) goes to fundie colleges like Falwell's besides

Brainwashed fundies?

Ever seen the rules these places have?

http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=1417&printpage=y

Are employers impressed with degrees from places like these?
Do they perform well in the real world?
Do they make higher salaries?

Also, places Patrick Henry college are training kids for political careers.

http://www.phc.edu/about/default.asp

The Mission of Patrick Henry College is to prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding. Educating students according to a classical liberal arts curriculum, and training them with apprenticeship methodology, the College provides academically excellent baccalaureate level higher education with a biblical world view.

The Vision of Patrick Henry College is to aid in the transformation of American society by training Christian students to serve God and mankind with a passion for righteousness, justice and mercy, through careers of public service and cultural influence.

Remember the "Cinderella Story" of the NCAA basketball tourney?

Another one of these fundie factory universities.

What gave you that idea?

It's a public university.

Here's one link from Media Transparency.


An excerpt:

The heavy stream of money invested in George Mason University offers a striking example of the attention that conservative foundations have paid to the recruitment and training of college youth. Located just outside the Washington, D.C. beltway and offering good access to national decision makers, George Mason University has been a magnet for right-wing money for over a decade.

snip

George Mason University's Law and Economics Center has as its mission to teach federal judges that the goal of the law should be to maximize the wealth of society by promoting the efficient use of scarce resources. Thus conceived, the law is no longer about the Constitution, or about ethics or justice. In this view, courts become an appendage of the market, promoting efficiency, not equity. By 1991, the Law and Economics Center had provided such training to 40% of all federal judges by offering them all-expense-paid seminars held at resort locations.



In other words, it's a wingnut factory.

Oh, and it began as a public university; it apparently isn't any more.

Just Google George Mason University to find a whole page full of similar articles.

Respect While Dating / Social Behavior

All students are asked to display mature Christian behavior in social interaction. Proper respect must be shown to all individuals at all times. Harassment of any type will not be tolerated. Handholding is the only appropriate form of personal contact. Improper personal contact or other forms of public display are considered in poor taste. After dusk, students should not be alone with an individual of the opposite sex in any unlighted area such as the ball fields, parking lots, parked cars, ravine or other wooded areas, etc. This is considered improper social behavior.

be alone with an individual of the same sex in any unlighted area such as the ball fields, parking lots, parked cars, ravine or other wooded areas, etc.

:evilgrin: :bounce: :rofl:

offers scholarships to kids all over the state of Virginia. My son graduated in 1995 and his girlfriend at the time could not get into any college because of her grades. Then she received an offer from Liberty, thank God she told me about it, and I clued her in. But how many don't know what they are getting into? Young minds can be fooled with very easily.

Who strongly encourage their students to attend Liberty or Bob Jones, et cetera.

schoolers. Where do those kids go to college, IF they go to college?

I know a lot of those homeschool kids are affiliated with the high schools for the athletic programs, such as they are.

and then she was shocked when they wanted to go to those kind of schools. She wouldn't pay for one that wasn't accredited, so they both went to state schools, where they were "persecuted" for being Christians. My niece was a freshmman when 911 happened, and one of her teachers said that religious fundamentalism was a worldwide "problem"... my niece felt oppressed.

called God's Next Army.



Hopefully it'll be available for (naughty) downloading.

ever

it was shown on April 25 on something called the "Discovery Times Channel". It also looks like they'll be showing it again at the end of this month.

Here's a linky: http://times.discovery.com/tvlistings/episode.jsp?episode=0&cpi=115419&gid=0&channel=DTC

sort of.

People that have this channel in their cable/satellite packagewill get to see it

ever since I saw it advertised on Channel 4 last Sunday.

You know what I don't get? It's how so many graduates from this completely unaccredited college snag all those plum internships on Capitol Hill. I don't understand why there's not a huge outcry of protest from the more qualified graduates of far, far better universities.

Why would a qualified graduate of a good university want to work for this administration?

I'm not necessarily being snarky; seriously. The main requirement for working for the WH these days is an absolute willingness to kiss AWOL's butt in all things. Not a plum job for an intelligent, ambitious 22 year old.

for ambitious graduates of good schools, it's still an impressive thing to be able to put on a resume even if they hate the administration.

It really, really bothers me that so many underqualified people are already running the US government and adding the PHC fundies into the mix sure doesn't help make things any better.

I'm not sure if you can get admitted into professional or grad schools very easily if your degree is not from an accredited school.

Unless:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1300263

That's one of the reasons it bothers me so much that these unqualified graduates are getting prestigious internships with such substandard academic credentials.

who used to ban it, and even still to this day requires "parental consent"