<p>Bob Jones is not a prison. Nobody is forced to go there, nobody is held there against their will. I’m sure many of the people on here criticizing a conservative lifestyle like this are the same ones advocating random sex to raise your spirits and a nifty little abortion if your birth control doesn’t work. That sounds a lot more hellish to me.</p>
<p>No Bob Jones is like a prison just you select to go there. Its not so much like a prison, it seems like a halfway house :D</p>
<p>“nobody is forced to go there”</p>
<p>…except by parental pressure, I’m sure</p>
<p>“Bob Jones is not a prison. Nobody is forced to go there, nobody is held there against their will. I’m sure many of the people on here criticizing a conservative lifestyle like this are the same ones advocating random sex to raise your spirits and a nifty little abortion if your birth control doesn’t work. That sounds a lot more hellish to me.”</p>
<p>Criticizing a conservative lifestyle? This isn’t a conservative lifestyle, this is a cult lifestyle that shelters itself from the real world. They are not the same thing.</p>
<p>Wow, way to completely go off topic and make it like everyone who dislikes Bob Jones is an abortion-loving whore. Really intelligent comments my friend.</p>
<p>He/She was careful to say ‘many’, not ‘all’. And some of what Sibelius was talking about was based only on what what’s seen on other topics throughout CC.</p>
<p>So Sibelius is basing their opinion that people who get abortions are whores on posts on collegeconfidential? Somehow I doubt that.</p>
<p>I’m a he, and Huey Freeman was awfully quick to start on the personal attacks. I thought you usually saved those for when you didn’t have an intellectual response?</p>
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<p>I’m not quite sure what you mean, but I will say that the same people who tell me that abortion is ok because of the poor girls that get raped and such are also telling a girl who has trouble making friends to start having sex with random people. You tell me what that says to you.</p>
<p>Lol and the same ones against abortion all hate gay people! Don’t you like huge generalizations!!!</p>
<p>I’m also not sure where I had any personal attacks, but alright! I’ll just let you bring in a completely different topic like abortion into this topic!</p>
<p>“[Bob Jones University] is a cult lifestyle that shelters itself from the real world.”</p>
<p>Apparently Freeman is an expert on Bob Jones University and its effects on its alumni’s survival in the real world, but prefers not to make sweeping generalizations. </p>
<p>Thanks captain hypocrite.</p>
<p>*students are not allowed to have a SAT score of over 1200. Each section cannot be scored higher than 450.</p>
<p>*students are not allowed to have any sexual orientation other than heterosexuality.</p>
<p>*students must be beaten by his Christian elders at least 666 times a day.</p>
<p>*if students are caught with Mel Gibson, Steve Carrell, Kanye West or Jim Carrey decorations, wall papers, or pictures, they will be nailed to on the cross.</p>
<p>*if students treat women without haughty disdain they will be publicly flogged.</p>
<p>*if students do not dress nude they will also be publicly flogged. Note that at all times they must have a maple leaf covering their crotch areas.</p>
<p>*if students are caught listening to Rap they will be shot 10 times. If the rap artist have gold chains of crosses they will be shot 9 times.</p>
<p>*if students are not white they receive weekly floggings based on skin color.
black = 20
mexican = 10
asian = 5</p>
<p>I’m not sure what else you call it magicmonkey. It certainly isn’t a conservative environment, it’s way past it. By taking all of these things away from these kids, kind of hard to think they will have completely normal lives isn’t it?</p>
<p>From the quote you put there, I see nothing hypocritical. It is a cult lifestyle that shelters itself from the real world…</p>
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<p>As I’ve said, I know people that went there. They are all successful, they can all deal with the real world, and none has said they were unprepared when they graduated.</p>
<p>This is a freaking college discussion forum so I’m not going to ask for proof, so all I can say is “ok”. </p>
<p>The real problem I have with what you did is that you brought in a completely unrelated political topic into a discussion that had nothing to do with it. I don’t see how you could deny that the rules are ridiculous and that we have every right to criticize them, so the discussion is pretty much done.</p>
<p>Another rule about BJU that scares me a bit more than any of the others.</p>
<p>“All weapons must be turned in for storage. Trigger locks are required for pistols. Fireworks are not permitted on campus.”</p>
<p>PG movies are unacceptable but owning a gun and bringing it to campus (as long as it’s stored) is.</p>
<p>^ lol.</p>
<p>Ok, this is my view on these weird schools. Yes, these people are crazy, but they want to have a Christian atmosphere, and that’s great. I too am a Christian, but I would NEVER attend one of these schools (Go Huskies!). The only problem is, a Christian’s point in life is to bring more people to the Lord. By…opening these…colleges (?) …they actually scare people into thinking all Christians are that weird. I mean, no movies, no DVDs, no videogames rated T, not being allowed around the opposite sex!? God started the Earth by putting Adam and Eve naked in a garden, with no supervision! BJU would have expelled God for that…o.o. These schools are just…going overboard. At one point you are no longer just a Christian…you’re in a religous cult. And that’s what BJU is…</p>
<p>My cousins went there, two of them graduated, and one transfered to Liberty U. Their parents made them go there, they wouldn’t pay for any other college, when the third refused to go there, they forced him to go for a year, then told him the only other option was liberty. Which I guess they still paid for, I’m not sure. But yea, the point is, I think a very small percent of the kids who go there actually want to be there, most are forced by their parents.</p>
<p>On a side note, when visiting different cousins in Greenville, we actually visited BJU. Just drove through it. It was fenced in and everything, but i dunno, just a plain old campus.</p>