Religious Colleges

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I would say it really depends on you, OP, and how comfortable you feel in a (potentially) religious environment. You weren’t super descriptive in explaining your relationship with religion (nor did you need to be, particularly). There is a wide spectrum between being an outspoken, virulent atheist, someone who was exposed to religion but for whom it didn’t “stick”, and someone with little or no knowledge of religion. Where you fit on that spectrum likely would inform how you would feel in the environment you describe.

If you say in a discussion that you aren’t religious and someone challenges that or even tries to educate/convert you, how would you respond?  It doesn’t sound like that would be deeply offensive or anything to you. If people mention their church, religion, etc casually, would that bother you? Again, it doesn’t sound like it, but that is up to you.

There are a couple of posts on this board about a (nonreligious) person taking classes at Liberty and being required to incorporate religious content/worldview into assignments. Is that something you would be, potentially, willing to do?  If someone makes a post about the earth being 6,000 years old, can you let that slide or are you the type of person who has to respond?

I would surmise, OP, that you are interested in a degree in a tech or business field. In most of your courses, religion probably won’t come up. I have taken a number of undergrad accounting courses at University of the Cumberlands. Outside of introductory posts where a person says they love God, go to a particular church, or want to work for a church or to be a missionary, religion hasn’t really come up, but YEMV.

I was purposely vague as to not cause any arguments. I am not looking for arguments but am wanting to learn from other's experience. Many of the questions you posed don't bother me in a casual setting. I tend to be someone who tries to change the topic when things like politics and religion come up because they tend to cause arguments and hurt feelings. Life is too short for that! I have yet to see anyone change their political or religious beliefs because of an argument with Aunt Sally. Maybe it does happen but that doesn't seem to be the norm. 

Yes this is a business degree with a bit of emphasis in the tech field. Funny you mention U of Cumb. It's one of the schools I have been considering for my DBA. The religious aspect there has also been a concern of mine. I actually visited the university and town on vacation many, many years ago. I had never heard of it until I drove by and said he lets go walk around the campus. It looked like it had some interesting architecture. It is a nice quiet campus. I knew absolutely nothing about it until I started reading the signs on campus while walking around. I had completely forgotten about it until I saw it mentioned on here last year and. was like wait I know that name. I had to google it and sure enough I was there.

Liberty is far too hardcore fo my tastes. I would not feel comfortable writing papers that require incorporating religion into them. This is also an online grad school program so it seems a bit different than the on campus degrees. It is a Southern conservative university. I've been to the city it's located in and while it is a very Christian city it does have a number of others faiths including churches/houses of worship from 250 years ago. The city's religious history is pretty interesting. It was one of the most interesting and surprising things I found while visiting. 

I have already made my decision. The university opens their courses up the week before the term starts so you can see what you're in store for. That helped me make my decision. I did some googling and read some forums. Many of those got very ugly very quickly and I didn't bother to read them once that happened because I didn't want that negativity to taint my decision. Those forums were actually not helpful because of the arguments that ensued. All sides came across poorly and did not help me at all.