The President of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, a Christian institution, criticized safe spaces on his blog last week and wrote that his university was “not a day care.”
The President, Dr. Everett Piper, began his post off by describing a situation in which a student approached him and said he was “victimized” by a sermon.
Piper critiqued the student and wrote that “our culture” has made “kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic.”
Piper continued, writing that students could attend school elsewhere if they didn’t like the campus atmosphere.
“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,” Piper wrote. “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,” Piper continued. “This is a university!”
Piper has hosted Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on his campus so far this campaign season.
Actually, that feeling decent people get from hearing your sermons is disgust and revulsion, not guilt.
Best part was watching Todd Starnes, Pope of the Starnes Church of the Perpetual Persecution Complex, in what could only be called a orgasm of hypocrisy, ejaculate all over Faux News’ website over this…
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/11/30/university-president-rebukes-self-absorbed-narcissistic-students.html
Had this been the President of Harvard publicly and personally lambasting some whiny Christian victimhood addict for protesting the school’s policies regarding whether or not some school function or official event or building or whatever can be used to promote Christianity or bemoaning how offended he is by the school’s health insurance and student clinic policies regarding contraception, etc., we’d have never heard the end of it from the Radicalized Christians who think it makes them closer to Jesus and more Christ-like to find some rationalization for claiming their own martyrdom.
I’ve I’ve said it once, I’ve said it . . .um, more than once. Just the two narratives in conservative world . . .
Yet no one is more easily offended than a conservative pol. They are delicate flowers, all. Ted Cruz couldn’t even handle CNBC’s questions, for pete’s sake. They should have offered a trigger warning, I reckon.
And, yeah, I have no doubt whatsoever that that university doesn’t have a single, solitary place where little kids are truly safe.