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Date: Aug 16 2013
Major: Religion/Religious (This Major's Salary over time)
I am not a BO JOer. I don't worship at the feet of BJU. But I do think the school re enforced my core beliefs. I think some of the faculty could have been better trained and had a wider field of experience. Many are criticizing the school. It is not the school that has changed but the world and society has left the very foundations of morality and beliefs which governed our society. Therefore, the school appears to be out of touch with the world. Many would say the say about God's Word. I am thankful that BJU has maintained its basic position and continues to resist the downward slide to a decadent society. I was at a state college before I went to BJU. The year I was at the state school, I encountered easy sex, flowing drugs and then the students burned the buildings down. I was glad to leave and get to a school where I could learn and grow in a safe and academic environment. I would not trust any other school with my children's future education. Thanks BJU. Keep it up. Stand strong in the Faith which was once delivered unto the Saints!
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Well, this is by far the most respectable positive review of this college I have found yet. And even as I say that, I also say I disagree with it strongly. Even so, it is very good that you don't hero-worship the school because some graduates definitely do. I have met some total BO JOers and find them pretty… repulsive. You better believe a lot of people are criticizing BJU. It has earned that and then some. I would argue that BJU doesn't merely "appear" to be out of touch with the world, it IS. I encountered passages on its website urging their flock to withdraw and isolate themselves from the world, and the ways of the world, because nearly the whole world is drowned in sin. So rather than do anything about it, they are merely seeking to "save" themselves based on old-fashioned, out-of-date values and let the rest of us burn. One can be a good Christian and not follow the way Bob Jones University dictates. Many, many Christians do. They burned a building down at your state school? Drugs, sex, students setting buildings on fire? Ha ha ha! Sounds like a good year! I agree that the big state schools- I'm guessing you were at one of those- are not for everyone. Smaller state schools and private colleges are a good and much-overlooked choice. One of these last sentences is something you have every right to believe. It is your right. But I think it is beyond insane that BJU is the only school you would entrust your children to. Not Yale, not West Point, not University of Richmond, not VMI? No. Only a place called Bob Jones University. I respect your right to have those beliefs, but I think a lot of this is pretty ridiculous.
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