The University of North Texas is in Denton with an enrollment of 32,192. If you're an in-state student, your parents will pony up $8,295 per year for your matriculation. That amount of money will allow you to be part of a student body in which, as we now know, there's an infection of hatred for Christianity. This infection was diagnosed in March of this year. The symptoms of the disease became apparent the week before Easter.
There's this student organization on campus called The University of North Texas Young Conservatives. The group that came up with an idea which combined a bit of fun with Easter. They decided to make it known that they had hidden 250 Easter eggs on campus each of which contained "a message of positivity and hope during the week that concludes with Easter Sunday." The message of positivity and hope within each egg was a quotation of various Bible verses.
"School was in session with students on campus for the week leading up to that particular Sunday, and with the stress of COVID, the Young Conservatives wanted to spread a little joy," said the chapter’s president. "“Half [of the Bible verses] were passages about Easter and Christ, and the other half were uplifting verses that weren’t really related to Easter, but we thought would be nice to find,” she said.
They put out a campus-wide announcement to the effect that, "Last night we put out 250 Easter eggs filled with Bible verses. Hope y’all have some fun finding them!" They weren't making a political statement in any way. It was an Easter egg hunt kids of all ages have enjoyed for generation after generation, after all, who, in their right mind, doesn't enjoy an Easter egg hunt?
The group was excited as they developed the idea and picked verses together. They thought that everyone can appreciate it, because you don’t have to be Christian to read a Bible verse and appreciate it.
Instead of positivity and joy, the president and the members of the Young Conservatives came under a direct attack and were vilified by an online mob consisting of a Facebook group that includes
about 9,000 students, parents, and alumni. Parents? The attack began with the parents who said it was
inappropriate to conduct the effort since not everyone on campus is
a Christian, and the students should have just filled the eggs with candy
if they wanted to do something nice.
But is Easter in any way connected with Milky Ways or M & Ms? When students joined in the criticism, the attack soared to the blitzkrieg level.
They attacked, taunted, and vilified the president and her club; a fellow student told the president of the organization to kill herself. Students did hunt the eggs, but only so they could stomp on them or throw them away. They were trying to see who could throw the most eggs away and who would stomp on the most, like it was a contest.
Let's analyze this rampage: These events are disturbing on many levels. One level is what they describe outright, unmitigated hatred on the campus for the Young Conservatives to the point that many groups and individuals have petitioned the administration to remove them from the campus. The hatred is so deep that the mob at one time secured the services of a self-proclaimed witch to put a hex on the president. This hatred reminds us of Christ's statement to His disciples, "If they have hated Me, they will hate you."
Another level is that of violence in the destruction of the pro-life literature of the Young Conservative and the egg-stomping, a violence which could escalate if the administration does nothing more than say, "We'll look into it," as they said about the egg-rage.
The president stated another layer when she said, "It’s considered normal for these people to hex me and hex my friends, nobody bats an eyes to it.” This is normal at UNT? Normal when a female student is publicly threatened and publicly harassed for distributing Bible verses? The organization wasn't forcing people to take them or read them.
Then, it's most disconcerting that parents went on the attack, stating that everybody must be a Christian in order to make Bible verses available on campus. This shows that the older generation has been miseducated, just as the present one is being miseducated. The problem is more widespread than the we might think. Aren't parents supposed to the the voice of reason?
To continue, this illustrates that we Christians are unprepared by the Easter outrage on that campus. We seem to always be at least a step behind and are therefore surprised at such and we must be continually be playing catch-up.
And finally, at its deepest level it illustrates Genesis 3:15, the seed of the serpent [Satan] continues to rage against the Seed of the woman [Christ]. This is the spiritual level.
And it is on this level where you and I come in with the gospel and an intelligent and thorough discipleship ministry to young believers in and before they get to our college, high school, and elementary school indoctrination centers.
Do you know of a college student or two or three with whom you can have a discipleship ministry, by letter or in person? A high school student you can prepare to be the next Daniel?
The president of the Young Conservatives at UNT said she will never back down to the mob. Someone has built some "Daniel" into her backbone. We rise up and call that person or persons "blessed."
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