College president stands up to ‘self-absorbed’ students

Everett Piper (Credit: Facebook, via the Blaze)

In the wake of all the college campus student uprisings and their successful demands for school leadership to step away from their leadership posts, now comes Oklahoma Wesleyan University president Everett Piper, who told one enrollee who complained of hurt feelings: Grow up – this isn’t a day care center.

In a letter, Piper explained how a student approached him to complain he felt “victimized” by a recent on-campus sermon on 1 Corinthians 13 that spoke of the need for love over law, over faith and over all things of this Earth.

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As the Blaze reported, “this young scholar felt offended because a homily on love made him feel bad for not showing love,” Piper wrote, in his letter.

“In his mind,” he went on, “the speaker was wrong for making him and his peers feel uncomfortable. I’m not making this up. Our culture has actually taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic. Any time their feelings are hurt, they are the victims. Anyone who dares challenge them and thus, makes them ‘feel bad’ about themselves is a ‘hater,’ a ‘bigot,’ an ‘oppressor,’ and a ‘victimizer.’”

Piper then explained what a “conscience” was, and how the “goal of many a good sermon is to get you to confess your sins, not coddle you in your selfishness,” he said, the Blaze reported.

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And he continued: “If you want the chaplain to tell you you’re a victim rather than tell you that you need virtue, this may not be the university you’re looking for. If you want to complain about a sermon that makes you feel less than loving for not showing love, this might be the wrong place. If you’re more interested in playing the ‘hater’ card than you are in confessing your own hate; if you want to arrogantly lecture, rather than humbly learn; if you don’t want to feel guilt in your soul when you are guilty of sin; if you want to be enabled rather than confronted, there are many universities across the land (in Missouri and elsewhere) that will give you exactly what you want, but Oklahoma Wesleyan isn’t one of them.”

And his final parting words of wisdom?

“This is not a day care,” he said. “This is a university.”

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