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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus3/28/2018 1:40:12 pm PDT

Getting back to the current problem in our society of right-wing fundamentalist Christians and their love of totalitarianism in the name of Je$u$:

Taylor University Still Shaken by Unsanctioned Conservative Newspaper

A month later, Taylor University is still buzzing about an underground publication, Excalibur, which claimed the evangelical college was becoming more liberal on sex, immigration, and race.

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In their debut newsletter, Excalibur promoted the conservative and orthodox Christian values its writers believed were being replaced by more politically and theologically liberal views among Taylor’s student body, campus speakers, and faculty publications.

The anonymous articles decried “permissive views of human sexuality, hostility toward creationist perspectives, rejection of the rule of law (especially on the immigration issue) and uncritical endorsement of liberal-progressive ideas.”

Excalibur advocated for a “conservative-libertarian approach to race relations” over “incessant calls for social justice, diversity, and equality,” likening the push for social justice to the false prophets warned about in Scripture (John 10 and 2 Peter 2). […]

Now, the president of the university condemned the letter (read the article), but the atavists have their supporters. One group (mostly recent graduates) write, with too many words and too little meaning, an attack on the president for his harsh words for the publication:

An Open Letter to President Haines and the Taylor University Board of Trustees

The lunge towards redefining “Christianity” in America as a type of ethno-nationalism based on right-wing ideology is where we are at in 2018, in the Trump-epoch.