Falwell's university uses house of horrors to lead people to God
LYNCHBURG, Va. -- It's a house of horrors with a twist _ depictions of grisly deaths and other grim consequences of everyday living designed to get visitors to think twice about themselves and consider how sturdy their relationship is with God.
At the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, Scaremare will attract about 20,000 people this Halloween season, using an abandoned brick orphanage and Liberty students as the instructors in what the school hopes will produce evangelical awakenings.
The program, in its 33rd year, is part haunted house, part sermon.
Following a frightening tour through the home, which includes a mock funeral of a young woman and a lashed and bloodied Jesus on a cross, visitors are led into white tents where students like Steve Cashman, 21, explain the meaning of it all.
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