BoJo Oddities
But I repeat myself
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BoJo Glossary - Learn to
think and speak like a BoJo! Above all, remember these rules:
Griping will not be tolerated and
No doubt the problem lies with you. BoJo apologist.
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The Dating Parlor - The triumph of
hysteria over hormones.
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BoJo Social Life
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Triple oxymoron? BoJo apologist.
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BoJo Bloggers
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The canonical list. Prepare for your eyes to glaze over. Typical:
"Had a great trip up to Canada last week in Western Ontario, where
I was asked to speak at a snow camp. God blessed us with some real
times of spiritual refreshment...." Zzzzz. Of course, they're all under strict orders not to say anything embarrassing or offensive
about the school, so it's no wonder they're so lame. Here's another
bunch of BoJo blogs at Xanga.
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SteJo! - In 2005 Stephen Jones, son of
Bob III, took over as president from his father. (Bob III remains as
Chancellor.)
The Washington Post interviewed him and elicited an apparent
repudiation of his predecessors' firebrand rhetoric: "there
were things said back then that I wouldn't say today."
But no. The key word there is "today." Not even the BoJos use (for
example) the N-word any more. At least not in public. But
notice how he sidesteps any regret that those hateful comments
were ever said at all. [Bonus:
Separated at birth?
SteJo ||
Alvin]
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BoJo v. 4.0 - SteJo's
brother is another BoJo -- the fourth of that name. Biographical
information about him is distinctly absent from the WWW. Last I heard,
he was with World magazine as national editor. Earned a
master's degree from (Catholic) Notre Dame University with the
apparent blessings of his papist-bashing father. In fact Bob III
blithely rationalized this hypocrisy,
says
this fundamentalist website.
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Bombastic
Bob - In his role as self-appointed
community censor and watchdog, Bob III called Carl Scheer, the
developer of Greenville's entertainment complex
"a purveyor of indecency" who is "pulling people
towards hell." Scheer's offense? He dared to book popular acts
such as Janet Jackson and Elton John. Said Bob III of Elton: "I
detest everything he is and stands for."
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Games BoJos
Play
- So you've survived four
years at BoJo and commencement is right around the corner. All
that remains is to grab your sheepskin and head for the gate, right?
Not so fast, sinner! BoJo reserves the right to deny you the "privilege"
of your degree -- the one you've spent 4 years earning
and paying for -- if it deems you
"sub-Christian" or "spiritually deficient."
Is that Catch-22 vague enough for you? Surely the "sub-est" of the
"sub-Christians" is whatever BoJo dreamed up this damnable policy.
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BoJo
Family Value$ - A Mr. Nimmons died and in his will left
"all of my personal and household effects of every kind" to
BoJo. Just one problem -- the man only had around $5,000.00 worth of
possessions when he died. He did, however, have a
$156,000.00 life insurance policy which named his estate as the
beneficiary. So BoJo went to court with essentially the argument
that the life insurance was a "personal and household effect," and
that Mr. Nimmons intended to disinherit his children and
to give everything -- including the life insurance -- to BoJo.
They lost, and the court awarded the insurance proceeds to the family.
The court said bluntly, "We find no
indication Nimmons intended to disinherit his children."
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BoJo-Approved Churches - These
Greenville-area congregations are BoJo-approved: No long-haired,
wine-sipping, foot-washing, whore-befriending mercy-preaching Jesus
allowed!
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Bob Jones & Me - See what the
local rabbi thinks. And on my
BoJo Hate Fest
page, Greenville's Jewish ex-mayor describes being picketed by the
BoJos for daring to organize a prayer breakfast!
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If That Was Funny, I'll Bet the Crucifixion Was a Hoot!
- Some BoJo students laughed at the September 11th attacks on the WTC
and Pentagon, according to the school's own chapel notes! Within 24
hours after I reported that fact, the BoJos sanitized their website to
remove the embarrassing admission. Click the link to read the
paragraph they deleted.
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After
the Laughter: BoJos
Say 9/11 Attack "Was Part of God's Plan"
[dead link] - According to The Collegian (BoJo student
newspaper - vol. 15, issue 3, Oct. 11, 2001), the school scrambled a
crack team of street preachers to Manhattan just days after the WTC
attack. The article states that "this tragedy was part of God's
plan." Part of God's Plan?! In the
words of the inimitable Joe Bob Briggs, "If this is God's idea
of a plan, I'd hate to catch him unprepared."
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Attention
Visitors: HIT THE DECK!! - BoJo security guard indicted for "assault
of a high and aggravated nature" after reportedly
firing his .30 calibre Glock semi-automatic into a moving vehicle.
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Lock, Stock & Barrel - Students are provided with a list of "What
Not to Bring" to BoJo. No-nos include contemporary
music cds, televisions, microwaves, and most video games.
However, feel free to pack your AK-47 or .44 Magnum, which "must
be turned in for storage. Trigger locks are required for pistols."
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Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come for You?
- Yikes! BoJos infiltrate local sheriff's department.
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Vengeance (and Hypocrisy) Are Mine Saith the BoJo - In this
YouTube video, five BoJo dorm rats hoot and dance to a corny gospel
song. Four of the five were expelled for this heinous offense. The
fifth? He's a BoJo faculty kid.
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If Thine Right
Eye Offend Thee, Use Thy Left - A BoJo dorm student was
arrested in a Greenville, SC tanning salon on charges that he spied
on a female customer as she disrobed. Byan Scott Bice, Jr., 21,
allegedly held a camera phone over the top of the 22 year old
woman's tanning booth as she got undressed and snapped "several
pictures." In addition to being apparently obvious and clumsy, Bice
also appears to be stupid: He allowed the woman to stall him until
police arrived.
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The "Organs" of "BJ"?
- I wouldn't touch that double entendre with my long, hard, sleek ten-foot pole.
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Hark! The Herald BoJos Sing!
- Musical ensemble tours the dark continent (i.e., Europe) preaching and singing solemn dirges (listen for yourself). Although the school bills this as their musical team, the group members finance the tours themselves, each raising about $4,000.00 (per their Winter, 2006 newsletter).
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Calif.
Students Learn Perils of BoJo Textbooks
-- The California university system has denied enrollment to Christian
school students who were taught science and other courses out of BoJo
textbooks. The university's review board said, "the
publishers themselves acknowledge that the primary goal is to teach
religious doctrine rather than the scholarship that is generally
accepted...." A BoJo science text states:
"If conclusions contradict the word of God,
the conclusions are wrong no matter how many scientific facts may
appear to back them." A lawsuit is pending.
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Urban Legends - BoJo
apologist.
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Hell's
Haberdasher - BoJo's website forbids
Abercrombie & Fitch clothing to be "worn, carried, or
displayed" on campus, even if concealed. The reason: "an
unusual degree of antagonism to the name of Christ and an unusual
display of wickedness in their promotions." The BoJos are
absolutely right about A&F's advertising. It's lurid and over-sexed.
But that part about "antagonism to the name of Christ" just sounds
like BoJo bullshit to me. If the retail whores at A&F thought religion
would move more rags out the door, they'd dress their models
BoJo-style and embroider "Jesus Saves" on every item.
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Starbucks: The Devil's Brew [broken link] -
BoJo boycotts Starbucks for being gay-friendly. Said the official
spokes-BoJo: "They were supportive of homosexual events and
causes." Now Barnie's has the campus Christ-centered coffee
concession.
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Gay
Marine Porn Stars for Jesus! - Rich Merritt is a Greenville,
S.C. native who went to BoJo, got kicked out, became an officer in the
Marine Corps, and later acted in gay porn flicks. Has written a
book, Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star,
which is rated 4.5 stars at Amazon.com.
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Bob Jones at Home in Sullivan County
- Very interesting. See also his
Words from Bob
Jones University page.
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The Greenville Gulag - Mike Doughty, a solo recording artist,
writes on his blog about his encounter with some BoJos during a gig in
Charleston: "...these guys weren't Christians. They were
there because their parents made them go there. They told me that if
the school's administrators found out they were at my show they'd be
kicked out of school. They told me that kids whose parents taught at
the school were obliged to go to the school, or else their parents
would lose their jobs."
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BJU Protest Lesson in Futility
- BoJo apologist reports on a 1998 protest concerning the school's
receipt of state scholarship money. Don't know which is funnier
-- the frazzled-looking protesters or this guy's unintentionally
ludicrous commentary.
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The
Music Man - Yes, it's true -- "so
called Christian musicians are flaunting themselves around the
country!"
And with all this righteous flaunting going on, I know the burning
question on my mind (as I'm sure on yours) is, "Is it right, or
even logical to mix the music of Belial, with the words of Christ?"
Fortunately, we have a BoJo maestro to explain it all,
here and
here.
Whom Are You Going to Believe - Your Lying Eyes or
BoJos's Paid Flack? - Bob Jones III
wrote Bush a congratulatory letter after the 2004 election, saying "You owe the liberals nothing. They despise you
because they despise your Christ." The Associated Press
contacted the school's official spokes-BoJo, Jonathan Pait, for
comment. He's quoted as saying that "it
would be a misreading of the letter to think that 'everyone who voted
for the Democrats is a pagan' or that 'if you voted for John Kerry you
are a despiser of Christ.'" So let me get this straight: It
would be "a misreading of the letter" to take it as literally meaning
what it says (just as the BoJos do with the Bible)? Pait also said, ``Dr. Jones did not intend to paint
everyone with that broad a brush.'' No? Then why did he do it?
As with the interracial dating ban, the BoJos pull this kind of crap
until it becomes embarrassing for them, and then they get all
reasonable-sounding and claim they're just devout people who are
misunderstood.
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BoJo Takes Manhattan -
Bob III speaks at a Manhattan, Kansas church, and one of his alumni
gushes to a reporter, "They are just sweet, normal people."
Hmmm...I wonder why she felt it necessary to reassure anyone about
that.... To see just how sweet and normal,
peruse these
quotes.
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Slow
Learners - BoJo "Bible Truths"
textbook for homeschoolers features a bearded man on the cover. Is it
Abraham? Moses? Jesus? Would you believe Stonewall Jackson?
Shamed into changing their racist admissions policy and interracial
dating ban, you'd think they would learn. But no. They're BoJos.
(More Neo-Confederate poop on my
BoJo & the
KKK page.)
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Creative Loafing's "Best of 1999"
Newspaper's readers chose BoJo as "Best
Monstrosity."
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Creative Loafing's "Best of 2000" Locals voted Bob Jones III as "Person with Biggest
Ego."
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Spiritual Probation
Leave it to BoJo to link
"spiritual" with "probation" as a single concept.
Excerpt:
"During my sophomore year,
when the pope
visited South Carolina, my classmates pushed near to him and
pointed their fingers, shouting, 'Antichrist! Antichrist!' and
they had been given permission by Bob Jones to leave the
campus to do it. I had a white female friend who was warned by
the dean of women to stop being friends with a
black male
student. One friend desperately needed help for her bulimia
but stayed silent because she knew the school would expel her
for it. Another friend, a graduate student, acknowledged that
he was gay and was told by the school that he was no longer
welcome on campus." -- Amy K., BoJo graduate |
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WMUU - BoJo radio. Hear
net broadcasts of classical and religious music -- or just listen to
some catch-hell sermons.
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The Wilds - BoJo camping. How wild could it be?
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Art Gallery [The BoJos
are bouncing back traffic from this link. Direct url is http://www.bjumg.org] - BoJo's collection of
baroque art has been hailed as one of the finest anywhere by The
New York Times, Better Homes & Gardens, and many
others. The school's emphasis on fine arts is remarkable --
Shakespearian theatre, opera, religious film production, and more. A
rose, as it were, in the crown of thorns. But then again...
"...my mother and I
almost
suffocated while there. The
atmosphere of conservatism there was just too palpable. My mother was told she
must wear a
long skirt and not trousers before entering the museum,
whereupon my mother complained that she was not entering the
Vatican, only to be admonished that one is not allowed to
protest the policies of BJU on university property. I
complained about their mounting of Rembrandt etchings, during
which I was informed about their rules about protesting. And
virtually every automobile in their parking lot had a
W-04
sticker...I must say it is a very frightening place, but I
recommend everyone visit the campus nonetheless. It is a very
educational experience."
.-- Comment by a visitor to the BoJo art gallery as
posted at Daily Kos |
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Katherine Helmond -
Actress whose alma mater is BoJo. Starred in the school's production,
Wine of Morning, which won an award at Cannes. Click the
link for a list of her TV and movie credits. Had a role in
Alfred Hitchcock's last film, Family Plot (1976).
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Agnes Moorehead -
Academy-award nominated actress probably best known for playing Endora
on TV's Bewitched. Left her Ohio estate, Moorehead Manor, to
BoJo. Character name "Endora" was derived from the Witch of Endor as
mentioned in 1st Samuel. The ultimate irony: During her lifetime, BoJo's
regulations prohibited students from viewing any of her dramatic work.
Sermonette
"Some people just plain need a lot of rules, they like a
lot of structure. I suppose you either found it amusing or
mystifying this week that the president of Bob Jones
University in South Carolina, finally came out with the
groundbreaking resolution that... watch out... interracial
dating was Okay.
And that was a big deal at the fundamentalist, Bob Jones
University because the whole logic of their spirituality runs
like this. If you compromise morally on this issue, then you
open the door for compromise on other issues. You keep
compromising, keep compromising and the next thing you know
all the Co-eds at Bob Jones University will be streaking,
drinking, and a bunch of atheists... just like Brown
University. They have to be intolerant, in their mind, in
order to be, morally pure. I don't know if you happened to see
the editorial in the New York Times by a recent graduate of
Bob Jones University but he describes life on campus there. It
was so quaint it was almost cute. You can only date under the
supervision of a chaperon, in the parlor of the dorms, and
then there was the six-inch rule. You have to keep six inches
of distance between you and your date at all times... Makes
you want to say, 'Gee Willikers...let's go get a malted?'
This moral casuistry is all about control. Very often, it
combines well with anger...Too many leaders of the Religious
Right are angry men and their anger drives their religion.
They need a liberal enemy or a secular enemy to generate
enthusiasm. They have to have something to overcome, something
to reform and rescue from the clutches of Evil.
Theirs is not
a positive spirituality, nor is it a spirituality of bridge
building because it is driven by anger.
It is always divisive.
That is why there is a joke about Baptists in the South. Every
time they have a church fight, the losing group leaves, starts
a new church and they call it missions. Sadly, there is a lot
of truth to that." |
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