The Christian-based King’s College in New York City, a longtime go-to for families seeking biblically based training for their kids, will lose its accreditation by the end of this month.
Another blow to Christianity in America. Another symbol of America’s faith-based culture bites the dust.
It’s tough to stomach that a nation founded on the quest of religious freedom, focused on a fight for free worship for all, centered around the idea that individual rights come from God — with the logical extension to that the recognition that God must therefore be kept at the forefront of all society — it’s tough to stomach that with all that, a Christian college could crumble.
How far America has come from the days when almost all the Ivy League places of higher learning were in the business of advancing Christian and biblical principles — to the era when those schools, i.e., Dartmouth and Princeton and Yale and others, turned much more secular — to now, to the time when schools specifically established as counter to the secular colleges, that is, the King’s Colleges of the country, are falling on tough times; on closing doors’ times. It’s yet another sign of the nation is distancing of itself from godly principles; it’s yet one more turn down a twisted national path of secularism and atheism and separation of church from state — which, by the way, was not exactly the founders’ intents.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people,” as John Adams famously said. “It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Morality and virtue are the foundations of our republic and necessary for a society to be free.”
Sound the bell for King’s College.
The Middle States Commission on Higher Education just announced that King’s failed to “update public disclosures pursuant to Commission policy and procedures” and “failed to meet its membership responsibilities,” and thus would lose accreditation on Aug. 31, as Christian Post reported.
This was after warnings from months back that the school needed to show proof that it was meeting the basic standards for accreditation, or face loss of accreditation.
“[King’s College] is in imminent danger of closing,” MSCHE posted on its website in May, Insider Higher Ed reported.
Such a shame to see in America.
In the United Kingdom, in recent times, churches have been turned into drinking establishments. In the United States, in recent times, churches have closed doors due to government dictates based on largely drummed-up COVID-tied fears. Now one of the evangelical world’s most noted Bible-based colleges is closing doors due to accreditation issues?
The writing is on the wall. America is ever increasingly turning away from a reliance on God and more toward a reliance on government — or self. The ensuing moral collapse is certain.
And the histories of nations show that as the morality of the people go, so, too, the direction of the government and society. All signs point: Going down.
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