Ugh, I mean just...UGH!!!

[Ragin4U]

6,000 is nuts its not Bible based.

Semi knowledge in the wrong hands can be dangerous, but 6,000 is not dangerous.

UL's Professor Whitmire and his Planet X theories in the wrong hands (minds) can be dangerous.

Adding up the ages in the Bible gets you to about 6500 years. Teaching that as science IS dangerous.

[CharlieK]

Right now the state of California passed a law that you could be jailed for not using a person's preferred gender pronoun. Should we avoid playing any schools from California because they are insane?

[CajunRebel]

Ideally, students leave school with the ability to think, not just blindly follow the pack. Ideally, they learn that others have their own ideas and they can discuss those ideas without being called libtard, GOPazi, snowflake, etc. Ideally, they leave understanding that if your argument begins with denigration, you've already lost. Ideally, they graduate equipped to make the world a better place than the one they entered, for everyone. Ideally.

Good post.

[Ragin4U]

Serious question. If you determine gender by chromosomes, what gender is a person whose genetic makeup is XO, XXX, XYY or XXY?

I'm not sure about the CA law, but that sounds ridiculous. Of course there are a plethora of ridiculous laws around the country.

[CajunRebel]

Right now the state of California passed a law that you could be jailed for not using a person's preferred gender pronoun. Should we avoid playing any schools from California because they are insane?

You’re talking about a political issue here. It’s completely irrelevant to the discussion.

More whataboutism.

[CharlieK]

Ideally, students leave school with the ability to think, not just blindly follow the pack. Ideally, they learn that others have their own ideas and they can discuss those ideas without being called libtard, GOPazi, snowflake, etc. Ideally, they leave understanding that if your argument begins with denigration, you've already lost. Ideally, they graduate equipped to make the world a better place than the one they entered, for everyone. Ideally.

Since this thread is about Liberty....do you think they have a particular monopoly on preventing that from happening? There are colleges all over that can't abide having a conservative speaker on campus. Schools that have "free speech zones", as if the whole country isn't already one of those. There are many schools now where if your views don't fall in line with the current liberal dogma you are silenced. Should we not play those schools in football either? Since they don't, by any means, do what you described above. Why is Liberty's particular brand of insanity worse than these others?

Genuine question. Where does our judgment of an acceptable football opponent stop?

[CharlieK]

You're talking about a political issue here. It's completely irrelevant to the discussion.

More whataboutism.

It is completely relevant. What they are doing is insane. And totalitarian. And much of it is originated and propagated from the universities there. Why would we want to associate our university with it? It's EXACTLY the same. It's just not YOUR pet issue.

[CajunT]

That is wackadoodle. Nearly as wackadoodle as teaching there are more than two genders.

Wackadoodle is fun to type.

Those are perfectly fine with him. You will never hear him speak out about those, just those wackadoodle religious institutions. 🚻

[Turbine]

Adding up the ages in the Bible gets you to about 6500 years. Teaching that as science IS dangerous.

I can easily be swayed by the danger application, even though I don't need one to know 6,000 is inaccurate.

"Day" is an indeterminate period of time "in my day" that was so.

I have a short attention span but even a cursory reading as far as Genesis 1:2 shows that Earth was already in existence prior the epic periods.

[CajunT]

It is completely relevant. What they are doing is insane. And totalitarian. And much of it is originated and propagated from the universities there. Why would we want to associate our university with it? It's EXACTLY the same. It's just not YOUR pet issue.

You are correct, that is why our President doesn't care what his peers in the SBC think. Like them, he doesn't believe in diversity of thought, just in diversity of skin color.

[CajunRebel]

It is completely relevant. What they are doing is insane. And totalitarian. And much of it is originated and propagated from the universities there. Why would we want to associate our university with it? It's EXACTLY the same. It's just not YOUR pet issue.

So what exactly is your claim here so we can be clear? That every single university in California lobbied the Ca. state legislature to pass a law that throws citizens in jail for using an incorrect pronoun?

Do you have a source that any of this actually happened?

[CharlieK]

So what exactly is your claim here so we can be clear? That every single university in California lobbied the Ca. state legislature to pass a law that throws citizens in jail for using an incorrect pronoun?

Do you have a source that any of this actually happened?

My claim is that it is that you are suggesting we use something besides athletic standing to choose a football opponent. In this case you are suggesting that their views on creation are so out of wack that we shouldn't associate our university with the school. I'm saying that that could be applied all sorts of ways. FOR INSTANCE we could say that the University of California won't allow honest debate on campus...no football, you guys are totalitarians. Or we won't play ANY public schools from California because the state passes unconstitutional laws restricting freedom. We don't want to be associated with that.

OR we could pick our football opponents from the pool of NCAA approved member schools based on how they can help our program grow. Now on that basis, I don't particularly want to play Liberty. But to not want to play them because of some foolish theories being taught....that's a pretty slippery slope.