{"id":1796,"date":"2010-10-05T09:12:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T14:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2010-10-05T09:12:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T14:12:18","slug":"liberty-university-goes-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1796","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University Goes Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, I got an e-mail from Liberty University<\/a>. It was actually more of a spam mail. It seems that the Jerry Falwell<\/a> School of Brainwashing has started an online degree program.<\/p>\n

I feel sorry for online colleges like Phoenix University<\/a> that already struggles to be taken seriously and not they are put in the same boat as Liberty. I do think that this home schooling university program will not be as successful as Liberty administrators might think.<\/p>\n

One of the advantages of a Christian collage for fundamentalist Christians is that everyone there thinks and believes the same thing. A campus of likemindless creates a group think. Those who \u201cstudy\u201d at home will not have the \u201cadvantage\u201d of the group think and so they will be more vulnerable to actual thinking. So when they have a question about the questionable material, instead of turning to a professor of fellow students, they will probably turn to the internet since that is where their classes are being held anyway.<\/p>\n

Of course, atheists dominate the internet. So Liberty University Online will attract fundamentalists, but will lead them eventually away from religion toward atheism.
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