Comments on: Wait, Why Should I Care?

By: johnnymags

johnnymags — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:56:46 +0000

any institution that gives Chuck Norris and hon. degree is just a club. He could walk into my martial arts school and my sifu would NOT give him anything beyond simple respect.

As far as churches being exempt- fine, but don’t hide behind that whilst preaching and fomenting political agendas.

By: ed

ed — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:36:23 +0000

Except that if they weren’t they would then have the right to be as politically involved as they wanted to be. Do you really want that?

That’s fine and dandy with me. They already make plenty of political statements with no repercussions as it is. Let’s not pretend otherwise and get it all out in the open.

There’s nothing wrong with churches being tax exempt, as other charitable organizations are.

Except churches are also about churchy stuff and not just charity. Tax ‘em like anyone else. (Actually, I’d rather see churches taxed double for polluting people with their religious bullshit. But maybe that’s just me.)

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:14:24 +0000

There’s nothing wrong with churches being tax exempt, as other charitable organizations are.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:53:57 +0000

The fact that churches are tax exempt is dogshit through and through.

Except that if they weren’t they would then have the right to be as politically involved as they wanted to be. Do you really want that?

By: ed

ed — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:48:04 +0000

The problem is their tax exempt status.

Yeah. The fact that churches are tax exempt is dogshit through and through.

By: ed

ed — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:16:31 +0000

Liberty University and Regent University both suck; they are madrassas that serve pork in the cafeteria. You ever hear of a scientific or academic innovation out of Liberty University? Novel scholarship? Useful research in the arts, sciences, technology?

Wait, how can you say that? Alumni from those fine institutions (and Patrick Henry College) staffed the George Bush, Jr. administration. They must be awesome!

Liberty University is a microcosm of the modern Republican party.

By: Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle

Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle — Mon, 25 May 2009 02:45:58 +0000

The problem is their tax exempt status. Frankly, I don’t give a damn if they want to outlaw Democrats on their campus. Just so long as their tax exempt status is revoked. My feeling is they’ll back down if the IRS threatens to take it away.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:52:08 +0000

There are good religious universities in this country. Georgetown, Boston College, Baylor, SMU, Pepperdine, Yeshiva University, pretty much any Jesuit institution. Even BYU produces real quality in its software engineering; Corel was one of its many by-products.

The Franciscan University of Steubenville is a staunchly conservative university, but it’s a real university.

It would not shock you to hear that a Nobel Prize winner came from SMU or Boston College or Loyola University in New Orleans or even BYU. Liberty – you’d piss your pants laughing.

By: Max Reddick

Max Reddick — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:49:54 +0000

I am glad someone finally said it. I was shocked when someone recently referred to Liberty as a major American university. Major? UNIVERSITY? It seems to me as more of a machine to turn out conservation shills.

As a sidenote, I was watching a television program some time ago. Snoop Dogg appeared on screen with a t-shirt that read in very large letters on the front, LBC. One of the commentators looked genuinely confused. “Did Snoop ever go to Liberty Bible College,” she asked her partner. The partner looked just as confused for a moment, then laughingly replied, “LBC stands for Long Beach Crips!”

By: sedum

sedum — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:27:14 +0000

Having a corp of demo’s at liberty u is akin to having a Colmes on Hannity and Who?

What were they thinking? Or were they thinking at all?

By: jr

jr — Sun, 24 May 2009 09:15:18 +0000

Mullah Falwell’s caveman spirit lives on

By: FreeDem

FreeDem — Sun, 24 May 2009 07:53:08 +0000

They may not be an actual University in the real world, but the Justice Dept has loads of lower level Monica Goodling Gremlins throughout with law degrees from there that cannot be fired.

I understand that such folk have moled in throughout the Government and that much “incompetence” in Obama’s administration can be laid to that source. There are a great many honest and caring folk but Bush tried to drive them out and replace with Goodling Stepford Bureaucrats.

If there is not a concentrated effort to get rid of the subversive elements, and prosecute at least some of the mountain of crimes committed then Bush may well not be remembered as the worst ever as a future Pirate will use Bush / Cheney as precedence to do far worse.