(The Washington Free Beacon) A Christian university in Missouri dropped its Crusader mascot due to the “negative connotation and violence” associated with the term.
Evangel University, a private Christian school in Springfield, announced this week that the school would shed its Crusader mascot because the crusaders of medieval times killed Muslims, Jews, and other Christians in pursuit of the Holy Land. The decision was not made in lieu of “a cultural response to political correctness” but, rather, because the mascot stains the school’s “reflection of Jesus Christ,” according to the announcement.