Trinity University here in Texas is now under fire by a handful of Muslim students who want the words "in the year of our Lord" removed from college diplomas issued now and in the future.
Trinity, founded by Presbyterians in the 1800s, is not considered a "Christian" school anymore. College officials claim its ties to the church are strictly "historical."
Nonetheless, while the student association backs the idea of removing the offensive phrase school officials are balking, worried they might lose funding from alumni who are already voicing their disagreement with the plan.
My question is this: Once you decide to shop for colleges, don't you usually take time to check out your choices to make sure their goals and programs are in alignment with your needs? Didn't it occur to the offended Muslim students that a school founded by PRESBYTERIANS might, just might, also include mention somewhere and in some fashion of something related to Jesus?
No? Really?
A quick internet search yields the following fact, thanks to Wikipedia.
The school "maintains a covenant relationship with the Presbyterian Church (USA)."
Trinity's own website offers this additional enlightening information. Christians make up 70.2% of the student body. Muslims? A whopping 0.6%
Again, it's not just Muslim students who are lobbying for the change but it strikes me as strange that anyone would.
Maybe it shouldn't.
Maybe someday it won't -- you know, after all our campuses, courthouses and other public forums have been purged of every reference to Christianity and history is once and for all completely revised.
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