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Bo Zarts

(26,449 posts)
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 02:56 PM Feb 2025

New Bob Jones "University" (BJU) billboard in Greenville, SC

"BJU: TAKING THE LIBERAL OUT OF LIBERAL ARTS"

Bob Jones University is a private university in Greenville, South Carolina. It is known for its conservative and evangelical cultural and religious positions. The university's website still proclaims that it is a liberal arts university.

Notable alumni: Billy Graham, Fred Phelps (Westboro Baptist Church, Topeka, KS), and Tim LaHaye (Left Behind) ..

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Dennis Donovan

(31,059 posts)
2. I worked for their FBO, "Cornerstone Aviation" back in '89
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 02:58 PM
Feb 2025

I lasted about 2 weeks when I shouted "SHIT" when a gas truck port closed on my hand.

Initech

(109,274 posts)
5. Holy crap these people are so insane.
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 03:01 PM
Feb 2025

I don't know why Dems in Congress are continuing to play nice with these scumbags. They want us dead. It's time to kick them in the ass hard.

rubbersole

(11,277 posts)
7. Surprised the billboard didn't have a picture of white Jesus in a maga hat.
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 03:46 PM
Feb 2025

Lettuce pray...

mercuryblues

(16,515 posts)
9. WWJH
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 03:52 PM
Feb 2025

Who would Jesus hate?

These self-proclaimed pious Christians want

woman as brood mares taken as sex slaves
no health care, if you die from a disease, its because you didn't pray hard enough.
only white, Christiaan males need apply
no voting
no education
put momma under a bridge to live when she can't pop out more kids.
pedophilia will be legal if you are a member of the right religion.


They disgust me

Ping Tung

(4,370 posts)
10. A note to the pious saviors at Bob Jones and other asylums.
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 03:58 PM
Feb 2025
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"

Mark Twain

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Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
12. Liberal arts without liberal is just basketweaving (respect for skilled basket weavers). . . . nt
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 07:32 PM
Feb 2025

valleyrogue

(2,795 posts)
13. Billy Graham left Bob Jones University, and did not graduate.
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 07:53 PM
Feb 2025

So isn't true he was an "alumnus" of that school in that he graduated from there.

He had a bachelor's degree in theology from Florida Bible Institute, graduating in 1940.

He earned a degree in anthropology from Wheaton College in 1943.

valleyrogue

(2,795 posts)
16. It's false in if they are trying to say he graduated from there.
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 09:05 PM
Feb 2025

It's pretty much well known that Graham had an anthropology degree from Wheaton College.

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