Mormons don’t do “Bob Jones U.”

Curious.  What is this phrase suppose to mean in these LDS blogs?

Mick over at Uncorrelated coined the sentence on Friday.

The author of “This I believe . . . ” loved the phrase so much he got all happy and highlighted it.

I am not quite catching the beauty of these words. 

Is it because I am the ignoramus in Southeast Idaho?

I know.  Mick gets all mad because the intellectual elite kick him for being Mormon, so he finds the dog to kick . . . Bob Jones University.

His blog post is sort of like that 2008 commercial that I watched at the end of SuperBowl 2008.  Did you guys see it?  The guy at the bottom of the corporation needed someone to get mad at.  Take it out on the dog.

But the dog’s response is the best.  Sometimes dogs are smarter than humans (especially when the two-legged creatures are angry).

7 comments

  1. You have an amazing gift – and an equally amazing set of eyes to pick out the 6 least meaningful words of an entire article containing 1,147 total words…..and then write an entire post bases on those six words. And have the insight to overlook all the other 1,141 words. But this is typical. May your keen, analytical, eyes continue to glean the most important six words of all articles that you read in the future. I’ve bookmarked your blog so that I , too, can learn to pick out only six words out of thousands of words in an article and write something as meaningful.

  2. Give Todd a break. He is, after all, a BJU alum…

    Conversely, Todd, I suspect there are very few, if any, Independent Baptists at Brigham Young…

  3. Actually, I would really like to take some of the religion courses at BYU-Idaho.

    As an independent Baptist preacher, I am just wondering how to express my desire when I have the time cleared in my schedule.

    ifokus, yes, my 12 or so sentences are in reaction to the one sentence nicely tucked in that nifty paragraph. But are not little dogs in Ammon, Idaho allowed a few barks and howls every once in a while, too. 🙂

    Don’t worry. I didn’t lose any sleep over it. Nor did I go find some other naive puppy to kick.

    All is well.

  5. Sorry Todd, but I’m not actually Mormon.

    I am what you might call a “jack-Mormon”, someone friendly and knowledgeable about Mormons, but unaffiliated.

    What I actually meant by the Bob Jone U comment, was that the Mormon leadership is more open to secular knowledge and less likely to isolate themselves with dogma and orthodoxy still common at places like Bob Jones and Oral Roberts.

    I’ve yet to meet a Mormon who rejects evolution, but Huckabee is quick to dismiss it outright or risk alienating the Evangelical voter base.

  6. Mick, it is great you dropped in.

    I think that there are some aspects of religious dogma at BYU that no one is allowed to cross, where even I as a Christian fundamentalist am left scratching my head.

    On the topic of evolution, I have met many lay Mormons who reject it. I have even read in the past — articles by LDS politicians who reject Darwinian evolution.

    But you are right about the LDS scientific community and how the BJU scientific community would be contra.

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