Like termites quietly hollowing out the foundation of a house, anti-Christian bias has been eating away at American higher education for decades. Most of the damage remains hidden behind academic jargon and faculty room doors; until occasionally, startlingly, the mask slips completely off.
Kelbie Murphy thought she was simply buying another overpriced college textbook. The University of North Georgia senior, recently baptized this past March, comes from a family of deep faith—her grandfather serves as a Baptist pastor in North Carolina.
She approached her International Public Relations course with the same dedication she brings to her work with special needs students. (You know, actually helping people instead of just theorizing about them.)
But Murphy’s $100 textbook purchase would reveal something far more troubling than inflated prices … it would expose what’s been hiding in plain sight on college campuses for nearly two decades.
The Stunning Discovery
Tucked into Chapter 8 of her required reading, Murphy found this passage: “An internet search produces the following modifier for identity: corporate, sexual, digital, public, racial, national, brand, and even Christian (a U.S.-based white supremacist group).”
Got that? Your grandmother’s Sunday church group? Apparently a hate organization. The faith that built America’s hospitals and universities? Pure bigotry, according to academia.
From Murphy’s interview with Fox News Digital:
The way it was worded, it listed several marginalized groups, but then only called Christians to be White supremacists.
But the scariest thing is that the book was written in 2007. This has been shared for almost 20 years, and it was never questioned.
So for two decades, students across multiple universities have been forced to purchase and read material that casually labels Christianity—the faith of roughly 65% of Americans—as synonymous with white supremacy. No context. No clarification. Just a parenthetical slander presented as academic fact.
Standing Firm in Faith
The university’s response certainly seems like gaslighting: Officials claimed the passage referred to “an extremist group that misuses Christian symbols to promote hate”—an explanation that many people of faith are questioning right now.
Additionally, I’m sitting here wondering how many other textbooks have alluded to something similar. And on top of that, how many students just…accepted it?
What strikes me most isn’t just the brazen anti-Christian bigotry; it’s Murphy’s graceful response. “I don’t want people who don’t know who Jesus is or who don’t know what Christianity is to take this and run with this and see Christians as a U.S.-based White supremacist group,” she explained.
Here’s a young woman more concerned about others’ understanding of her faith than her own offense.
Her grandfather taught her to “never back down” when it comes to faith, and she hasn’t. Instead of rage or victimhood, Murphy channeled this experience into purposeful action. She’s completing her capstone project focused on special needs education and previously interned at a nonprofit serving people with disabilities—living out the very Christian compassion her textbook condemns.
This isn’t an isolated incident; it’s a revelation of academia’s true feelings about Christianity. When institutions can peddle such poison for twenty years without question, we’re not dealing with oversight; we’re dealing with systemic hostility.
Murphy’s courage in exposing this should inspire every Christian parent and student to examine exactly what messages are being force-fed in our universities. The termites have been busy, so maybe it’s time to call the exterminator.
Key Takeaways
- College textbook explicitly labels Christianity as “white supremacist group” without context
- This material circulated unchallenged in universities for nearly 20 years
- Christian student responds with grace, focusing on service over victimhood
Sources: Fox News
