Pretty amazing how far we’ve fallen.
When Thomas Jefferson was establishing the University of Virginia, he fought hard to ensure that no religious books were included in its library. According to Professor Leonard Levy of Southern Oregon State University:
“No part of the regular school day was set aside for religious worship….Jefferson did not permit the room belonging to the university to be used for religious purposes.”
– Similarly, according to Dr. Daryl Cornett of Mid-America Theological Seminary:
“Jefferson also founded the first intentionally secularized university in America. His vision for the University of Virginia was for education finally free from traditional Christian dogma. He had a disdain for the influence that institutional Christianity had on education. At the University of Virginia there was no Christian curriculum and the school had no chaplain.”
– It is with this in mind, that one must note the anti-secular, anti-American treatment by which Damon Fowler, an atheist student at…
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Dropping all Pretense 