Colorado Christian University, a school whose headquarters are not far from my old neighborhood in Lakewood, Colorado, and an institution whose current president is former Congressman and Senator, Bill Armstrong, is appealing a federal district court decision that denies state financial aid to its students because of the school's religious philosophy. The case could create an example for other judges to follow, thus endangering the continuation of Christian higher education throughout the country. That is, unless churches and individual Christian donors step up to the challenge and let government know that it cannot use money to force Christian colleges to stop doing what they're supposed to do.CCU had filed a lawsuit against the Colorado Commission on Higher Education in 2004 after the commission deemed the nondenominational school "pervasively sectarian" and denied state-funded tuition grants. And now a U.S. district judge has said that since "even its secular instruction is infused with religious components," he was upholding the Commission's findings. Thus, the judge penalizes the Christian University for simply being a Christian University; i.e. presenting a wholistic education, one in which all truth is recognized and respected as God's truth.
Note please that the judge hasn't ordered any of the state colleges to "defuse" their secular instruction from the religions of humanism, Marxism, naturalism or pantheism. Why? Because it is only Christianity that presents a true risk to his own intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy.
The culture war rages on.
