#I found articles about LU while I’m attending currently makes me so sick and uncomfortable

[corvikari]

Warning: mentions of Sexual Assault, links to professional articles that describe sex scandals, rape, and murder.

It has come to my attention that the online school I attend (you may have heard of it, Liberty University) has been heavily involved in the silencing of Sexual Assault victims, racism, discrimination, and more (Links to various articles as well as the wikipedia page at the bottom of this post).

I am already enrolled in online classes so there is not anything I can do currently (I’m working towards my associates degree), I want everyone to know that I was not aware of this and I am positive that if my parents knew of this they would not want me on Campus (I trust my parents and don’t try to tell me otherwise). Overall this absolutely disgusts me that they have the audacity to call themselves a Christian Institute when all they’re doing is spreading even more hate and disgust towards Christians. I want to reiterate that I am Christian, these people at LU who are allowing this to happen obviously have a twisted mindset of what Christianity is. Even though they may say they believe in God and have accepted Jesus as their savior it does not always show through their actions. I know this won’t fix any pain that LU has caused victims in the past but I would still like to express that I am extremely sorry that you had to go through that, and it is understandable that that may have damaged your faith severely. However, I ask that you understand that not all Christians are like this, there are just those people that make everyone else look horrible and disgusting and perpetuate an awful stereotype. I don’t quite know how to conclude this post other than just to emphasize that I had no prior knowledge of this and I will not be attending in person (I had thoughts but now it just puts a horrible taste in my mouth and it makes me so uncomfortable to think about.)

Links Below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_University

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/virginia/articles/2024-03-05/liberty-university-agrees-to-unprecedented-14-million-fine-for-failing-to-disclose-crime-data

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2023-10-03/liberty-university-failed-to-disclose-crime-data-and-warn-of-threats-for-years-report-says

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/22/opinion/liberty-university-scandal-education.html

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2024-03-05/liberty-university-fined-record-14-million-under-federal-crime-reporting-law

(P.S: this post may not be as coherent due to the fact that I had just found all of this out today and I am not in a state where I can put it all out on paper just yet, to be honest I could give a whole essay on this and how shocking it is. If this happened in 2014 I would think “Well that’s not okay at all but at least they’re trying to fix things so it won’t happen again” BUT THERE ARE ARTICLES FROM 3 WEEKS AGO ABOUT THIS CRAP! Anyways stay safe, God bless and have a great rest of your day/week 💜)