Secularism with the gloves off: Vanderbilt U’s assault on religious groups
Vanderbilt Stadium, Vanderbilt University (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Peabody College of Vanderbilt (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) "Cornelius Vanderbilt, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to left, with side whiskers". Half plate daguerreotype, gold toned. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The music video of "The Story of Us" took place in the Central Library of Vanderbilt University. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Entrance to the Vanderbilt School of Medicine (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Like most of America’s historic private universities, Vanderbilt University was founded by Christian believers for the purpose of inculcating Christian beliefs in its students. Vanderbilt was founded in the 1870s by Methodists and later funded largely by New York’s Vanderbilt family . Within a remarkably short period of years, Vanderbilt had forfeited its conservative Methodist roots in order to identify with the emerging secular consensus in American higher education . As Notre Dame’s James