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Monday, November 30, 2015

Christian College President Tells His Students: 'You're Self-Absorbed and Narcissistic'

The president of a Christian liberal-arts university wrote a scathing letter about students on campus who complain about perceived injustices and insensitivities – scolding them for being "self-absorbed and narcissistic" and declaring: "This is not a day care."

Oklahoma Wesleyan University head, Everett Piper, in a letter posted on the school's website, argues today's culture is teaching young people "any time their feelings are hurt, they are the victims."

The stern lecture was prompted by one student who complained a university chapel service made him feel "victimized" by a sermon on love that "made him feel bad for not showing love," Piper explains.

"Our culture has actually taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic," he writes.

"I have a message for this young man and all others who care to listen. That feeling of discomfort you have after listening to a sermon is called a conscience…"

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would like to offer a theme for those who are offended, which should be accepted as the ineffectual rallying cry: "Whaah!"
Put it on your t-shirts, sweatshirts and banners.

Anonymous said...

Hear the truth and the voice of reason.

Anonymous said...

A baby's cry. How appropriate. Good idea.

Anonymous said...

let them learn to gripe in college...so they have it down pat when they are broke and unemployable

Anonymous said...

For once a collage I will look at sending my kids to.

Anonymous said...

I agree with this president we hand out excuses to everyone that breaks the law now, and it is some injustice they perceive which we should pity, if you break the law, or just don't follow the law in belief and actions, man up! Like the murderer in the south that killed 7 people in a church, he sat their long enough to know they were good people but didn't care their lives did not matter just his!