<p>I lol'd at the eye babies thing. After graduation, when a couple marries and wants kids, do they just stare at each other and wait for the "eye baby" to be born?</p>
<p>Wow... after reading all the posts, just wow...</p>
<p>As a Christian myself, I can't even imagine the strangling rules that this school has applied. The very reason that Protestantism arose was because we didn't want hierarchies of people getting between people and God, and this is exactly what this place is doing. </p>
<p>And the rules here and those who enforce them make you wonder whether people who teach there are qualified to enforce their definition of "morality" when they themselves are flawed (as everyone else is)? </p>
<p>P.S.: I'm sure that being Christian means more than just living in an exclusive community and following your own Navy SEAL strict moral code... It's reaching out to the community, and this college shows no potential for teaching any of that than a normal college Christian Fellowship might do.</p>
<p>While I agree that the rules are extreme (and in my opinion, ridiculous), you have to understand that most of the students who go there were probably raised in families that impose and believe in similar rules. In other words, a ban on drinking is not much of an imposition on a person who is already a teetotaler. And, as others have said, it is certainly possible to get a good (although not really broad) education at such a school. I knew two guys in law school from Bob Jones, and they had no trouble keeping up. And compared to the overall number of colleges, these are barely a blip on the radar screen.</p>
<p>It makes you wonder, though, if these institutions ever impair the social skills of anyone who graduate from them - if you haven't ever talked to a member of the opposite sex, will you ever be inclined to?</p>
<p>I know I'd be miserable at this place (thought knowing me, that probably wouldn't last long), but kids choose to attend it, most likely knowing ahead of time what it entails. Most people have the internet, so it's not like they didn't know what they were getting into.</p>
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you totally can talk to them! you just have to stay 30 paces away & have a chaperone & refrain from meeting their eyes.</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^ lol</p>
<p>I just feel bad for people who were FORCED to go here. I mean if they grew up in a really strict setting their parents probably dictate where they should goto college and stuff like that too.</p>
<p>I dont know why someone would wanna live under those conditions anyhow. Do you need other people telling you what you should do anyhow? I mean if you are strict and don't like all those other stuff they are against you won't do it in the first place anyhow, right? I rather goto prison... least its free.</p>
<p>I found it a little odd that part of their application to be accepted required attaching a photograph of yourself.</p>
<p>If I'm too ugly, I won't get accepted?</p>
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<p>If you mean like USNA, West Point or AF Academy, you're wrong.</p>
<p>"I mean if they grew up in a really strict setting their parents probably dictate where they should goto college and stuff like that too."</p>
<p>Yeah, but this just means that they're used to it. It doesn't mean that they have an automatic aversion to a totalitarian lifestyle like most of us do.</p>
<p>Liberty, Regent, and Patrick Henry all encourage intellectual inquiry in the Western tradition. This does not. It's a place for truly brainwashed people.</p>
<p>I suspect that the degree carries a lot of weight in some parts of the world, and that if the school applied for accreditation it would have to make some concessions that would hurt its reputation in some areas. If you want to go work for Apple, a PCC degree might mean very little. If you want to go be a leader in a very fundamentalist Christian community, it might mean a lot more than, say, a BA from Berkeley.</p>
<p>The problem I have with it is that while it's perfectly fine to choose to live according to the rules PCC insists on, I think young people should not only have options, but know they have options and know what some of those options are. (Pretend I ranted at length about parents who work to ensure that their adult children never realize that certain options are even out there.) I wonder how many PCC students have been exposed much to people who have different ideas than they do.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I also have a problem with young people in some areas being raised not to take the Christian right seriously, and not having accurate information about what the sorts of beliefs members of the Christian right have. That's an option that should be available to young adults who have been raised in liberal secular communities.</p>
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<p>I have a problem with this statement. What use is a mechanical engineering degree as a leader in a very fundamentalist Christian community? If this were the only use for a PCC degree, then they might as well have one major: theology. The fact that they have various majors as choices means that they aim to serve their students with an education to be of use in the "worldly" world. I believe that this institution is misguided in what they are doing, if they are indeed hiding the truth about their accreditation.</p>
<p>But cbpeanut, they need to issue worthless degrees in other areas to bolster their attempts at advancing their insane religious agenda. For example, how do you get Creationist "scientists" without offering a biology major? And how else can you train the managers of morally bankrupt religious broadcasting networks without business programs? It is true they offer more than just theology, but the areas of potential employment are clearly limited by the institution that grants the degrees.</p>
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But cbpeanut, they need to issue worthless degrees in other areas to bolster their attempts at advancing their insane religious agenda. For example, how do you get Creationist "scientists" without offering a biology major? And how else can you train the managers of morally bankrupt religious broadcasting networks without business programs? It is true they offer more than just theology, but the areas of potential employment are clearly limited by the institution that grants the degrees.
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<p>But you've got to admit that that's a brilliant strategy in buying legitimacy.</p>
<p>As an atheist, I think this is a perfect example of how religion is equal to brainwashing (brainwashing being defined as taking children who can barely read and telling them that their lives are controlled by an invisible man in the sky).</p>
<p>Do you favor taking children who can barely read and telling them that there is no invisible man in the sky?</p>
<p>Hunt, there is not some natural assumption in the divine by a child who has never heard mention of its supposed existence. It is only because so many people have fallen victim to religion, and integration into mainstream culture is so pronounced, that there is any need to dispel the irrational myth of the divine. And doing so at an early age is best, so that they do not spend their more impressionable years conforming to the irrational whims some religious text tells them reflect the will of a non-existent creator.</p>
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<p>haha in comparison to the scenario in the post you're responding to, that really doesn't sound too objectionable at all..</p>