So there is this comment. On a video. On you tube.  I will spell it out below.

The video is about Bob Jones University. A bastion of Christian Separatist  Fundyism. The video shows 5 students who were kicked out for participating in the dancing to a peppy song.

Bob Jones University is a pround institution promoting guilt, shame, and cloistering in the name of raising up warriors for Christ. Where adults are given bare minimum freedoms and an illegitimate degree from their non-regionally accredited institution. College students  have bed times, chaperones on dates, mandatory chapel, rhetoric from teachers that women aren’t good at math and science…rules on hair length, panty hose, movie theaters, Red Lobster. And of course all the best goodies are disallowed (sex, drugs, and rock and roll) and by obvious reverse engineering… (kissing, alcohol, and Phantom of the Opera). I could go on and on and on and on. The unaccreditation fact is rarely brought up, and if it is It’s all “don’t worry about it, people have gone here before and had no problem. Trust God.”  But before you go just try asking the California teaching or accounting boards if they would like to award you certified status when coming from an unaccredited university. Please Please Please Check.  God doesn't come down and allow you to be a counselor at a public school with a counseling degree from Bob Jones. He Doesn't DO IT. Try Praying your way into your favorite grad school. No Can Do.   Try transferring after being expelled from Bob Jones University to any other non-religious public or private university without spending a full time job begging the transfer office for 9 months to let you in if they will at all.

But I didn’t invite you here to talk about that place. I didn’t invite you here to talk about the video. That was just some light background. I want you here to witness VISIBLE brainwashing.   The whole comment is full of incorrect assumptions and logic, as are many of the comments on that video. but there is that one line that really is a gem. OMG you’ll LOVE it.

 

Ok, so many people have commented on how Bob Jones is in so much control over the students, and how it's too strict. Well, get over it! if you don't like the rules, go somewhere else and quit whining about it!  yes, because fundy Christian parents give their children so much control and knowledge about college options that only well-informed young adults choose to go here. Or wait, is it,,, go  to BJU or else you will have to have an intervention with your Christian school principle, or go to BJU or else you don’t get your mom’s help in paying for college, or go to BJU or else you are disrespecting your parents and therefore disrespecting God and you will be ostracized from your social circles,  or go to BJU because your Christian school secretary altered and lied on the transcripts she sent to the public universities you applied to, or go to BJU because you haven’t received ANY knowledge from any friends, family, school on how to go about applying to any other college. (real situmations with real people’s names attached BTW)

And another thing: The rules keep you safe, and they're there for a reason. This is EXACTLY the type of attitude that kept the above poor high-school junior from having the choice to make choices about his/her college . The people in charge know best. They have reasons. They are there to keep you safe. Mom and Dad have a rule for you to go to Christian College. That Rule keeps you safe. It’s there for a reason.  Don’t think. Don’t make mistakes. Don’t. Don’t. Don’t. But it’s your fault either way.

Like the rules about going off campus with a guy, that's to protect you from being hurt, because some guys are total jerks, you never know.

That is decidedly NOT the reason. The reason is that Bob Jones University don’t want you to have SEX. 

I think she’s trying to imply that the guy in this situation is raping the girl or is trying to convince a girl to be naughty. 

Proposition A. Some Guys are Total Jerks (Rapist and/or plain ol horny 22 year old)

Proposition B. Enough Guys are Total Jerks enough that we should all be concerned.

Proposition C. It is a school’s duty to protect you against Jerks

Proposition D. Going off campus with a guy will give him the opportunity to be a Total Jerk

Conclusion:  Girls can’t go off campus with a guy.

Logic isn’t bad. Too bad the Propositions are.

Not Mentioned…The chance a guy will be a Total Jerk (the kind you need to be protected against) is much less than the chance of you making a legitimate living off of your new unaccredited psychology degree.

Not Mentioned: Girls dig sexy time. 

Not Mentioned: Some uncles are Total Jerks too and step-dads (the bad kind). And you can go off campus with them.

Not Mentioned: There are plenty of places ON campus for guys to be Total Jerks. (The normal kind) (Ask me how many girls I know gave a decent Handy while watching Living Gallery) .

Not Mentioned: Some dorm supervisors have relations with underage academy girls (Being a Total Jerk) (By some I mean one, and by girls I mean girl, and that was just a rumor we all heard, but no one confirmed) (kind of like all those pesky Catholic priest Total Jerk rumors that went unconfirmed for so long).  And yet dorm sups can Chaperone ANYONE off campus.

Not Mentioned: Random non-Christians at the grocery store are jerks too (the normal kind and bad kind) and girls still go shopping (as long as you aren’t campused, socialled, have appropriate leveled privileges,  have received checkout desk approval…)

and the one with keeping your room clean and no drugs and no alcohol, The clean room rule is to make the dorm life easier, and also to keep people to respect your stuff.

Or you could just ask nicely and if that doesn't work you can switch roommates to one with more your aesthetic style. Oh, wait. The university picks your roommates for you and doesn't let you live off campus. You are right. Yours is the only valid solution.

And No drugs and alcohol, well, would you like to have a roommate who wakes up screaming when you're trying to sleep, or study?

This Comment. Oh dear god.  This is why I wrote this post. This poor woman has reviled that she has zero context outside her own fundy fundy world.  That she is a sad victim of bullying and lying. Can anyone tell me when the last time was that they went to bed with a glass of wine and woke up screaming? Can you tell me the last time you got BLACK OUT DRUNK and woke up screaming? Can you tell me the last time you smoked a joint to mellow out and woke up screaming?  Did you go out in college and play pool, have a few beers, watch a game, be a Total Jerk and come back to your dorm room screaming while your roommate was trying to study. Screaming, mind you.

Let’s read about Ecstacy. The second most popular drug (outside Weed)  as concerns first time users (from Wikipedia)

• A strong sense of inner peace self-acceptance (or you could just get saved)
• Diminished aggression, hostility, and jealously (or you could just get saved)
• Diminished fear, anxiety, and insecurity (or you could just get saved)
• Extreme mood lift with accompanying euphoria (or you could just get saved)
• Feelings of empathy, compassion, and forgiveness towards others  (or you could just get saved)
• Feelings of intimacy and even love for others (or you could just get saved)
• Screaming in the middle of the night when roommates are trying to sleep.

 

MDMA (Ecstasy) was used by therapists to facilitate open communication before the government decided it was illegal and a Drug. Once that happened, everyone who took it started screaming when the person on the bottom bunk took a doze.

 

From www.onesentence.org …

LSD

Sometimes I wonder if eating a sugar cube of acid and wandering Coney Island will always be the most beautiful experience of my life.

He wrote this before he started screaming . Fact

She knows that drugs are evil.  So is saturated fat. She has no idea that drugs come in a wide variety of ranges. Chicken Noodle soup don’t have a lot of saturated fat…McGriddles have a lot of fat. And there is a whole lotta food up and down and in between. Kinda like them drugs.  Heroin will mess you up, have you dependent in under a week, and potential produce societal consequences…weed, not so much.  But why use education when scare tactics are oh so much more effective and make the recipients look oh so much smarter and able to argue valid points.

or would you like to be all messed up so you can't do anything and you waste your money and your life?

Again.  Please be aware of the range involved here. 

75% of Americans drink alcohol.  Only all of them might not consider their lives wasted. And many consider it money well spent.

Which do you prefer? Just getting used to and following the rules, or waste your money?

Say What. 

I’m going to go have a beer and find a Total Jerk.