Rmuse is quite scathing in his write-up concerning Liberty University. Some of the numbers presented are astounding,,,
"Liberty University is like every church in America and is exempt from
paying taxes, but it is not exempt from collecting other Americans’ tax
dollars."
As a recent
report
reveals, and it is a very disturbing revelation, one of the
Republicans’ most coveted welfare recipients, Liberty University, the
fundamentalist “institution” founded by Baptist scam artist Jerry
Falwell has become the largest “private, Christian, tax exempt”
conservative candidate mill in the United States of America. The slap
in the face to American taxpayers, and an affront to the Constitution’s
Separation Clause, is that taxpayers are furnishing a majority of the
funding, and huge profits, to the Christian madrassa in two distinct
ways. First, Liberty University, and calling it a legitimate university
is an abomination, brings in the majority of its revenue from
taxpayer-funded federal aid, and because it is a so-called “
charitable religious organization,” the bible school and its substantial staff of clergy are exempt from paying taxes.
As one religion writer noted, “
evangelical students find Liberty
attractive because they can take courses online and have taxpayer-funded
welfare cover their living expenses. Federal aid to Liberty’s students
has grown so high that it now exceeds all other revenue collected by the
university.” To be clear, federal financial aid, like grants, does not go directly to the ‘
university,’
but it does go directly to Christian students to pay for enrollment and
tuition at the Baptist bible school. In fact, education experts say one
of the reason evangelical conservatives love attending the bible
college is that taxpayer money pays for all their school expenses as
well as their living expenses while they “
profit” from an
evangelical educational experience. In return, taxpayers are now
suffering from Republicans who were educated in how to legislate “
the Christian worldview” as the law of the land.
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One wonders why Americans are not outraged that they are funding a private “
bible school” with $800 million of their hard-earned tax dollars; particularly since it teaches “
university-level”
creationism, evangelical fundamentalism, Republican politics, support
for Koch-style capitalism and free enterprise, and theocratic
conservatism. In fact, the entire curriculum is
centered around indoctrinating into student’s psyche a religious commitment to promote the “
Christian worldview;” the same worldview that Republicans in Congress and state legislatures are busy legislating into law.
American Taxpayers Fund the Largest Christian College In America and the World
