Comments on: Pensacola Christian College Rules and Regulations

By: Christian Cult: A Look At Pensacola Christian College - Odd Culture, Strange People, Weird Things

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:33:18 +0000

[...] say that PCC’s policies are strict is an understatement. In the blog Restless Wanderings, portions of the 2001 student handbook, which is apparently well-guarded and difficult to obtain by [...]

By: Kitty

Kitty — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:54:32 +0000

Midwestern,

yes, very long on rules. follow the rules and you don’t really need an education…

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:31:29 +0000

Massillon, eh. Been there many times in the 80’s and 90’s. I had a pastor friend, Keith Troyer who graduated from there.

Massillon was very similar to Midwestern, where I attended in the 1970’s. Short on academics and long on rules.

Bruce

By: Kitty

Kitty — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:10:51 +0000

Thank you for this post. It is so sad, and yet it brings me a sense of nostalgia. Cripe! The sick rules and regulations are not that uncommon, unfortunately.
This is quite similar (sans the beaches) as the College where my sister works. Massillon Baptist College. The rules are very similar to the high school I graduated (affiliated with the college, of course!).
http://www.mbcaf.org/

I particularly like their dormitory rules #s 7 & 8:

7. Single students (under the age of 30) who move into the Massillon area must live in the dormitory facilities. Single students who have lived in the Massillon area for more than six months prior to making application at Massillon Baptist College may continue to live in their current residences, or may choose to move into a dormitory. Single students age 30 and over must have special permission from the Dean of Students to live in the dormitory. All students moving to the Massillon area are required to become members of Massillon Baptist Temple while attending classes at MBC.

8. No student who has been married (whether separated, divorced, annulled, or widowed) may live in the dorms.

By: Angela

Angela — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:40:57 +0000

Touche, Hypo-C.

And if you are a staff member out on patrol duty, it’s not hard to spot when PCC students are off their “planet”–

A car of 5 females or a car of 5 males looking basically white like bread and you know they’re from PCC. That’s why the rare chance I had to go to the beach was only with 2-3 others and far away from anywhere prying eyes could see.

By: Hypo-Calvinist

Hypo-Calvinist — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:49:41 +0000

Wow, now I get what they meant in that popular self-help book,

“Men are from Left after the toll bridge, East no more than five miles past the residential area to the space between Pensacola Beach and Navarre, Women are from West of the Fort Pickens gate and by no account should they drive east toward Navarre.”

By: Ab

Ab — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:14:57 +0000

Actually living in Pensacola and seeing how corrupt the city is, and how naive some of the students at Pcc are, can give an appreciation for some of the rules (womens curfew and group requirement). The police might not help if one dissapeared.

That said, some other rules are written as retribution to a business owner (certain optical places), or just for control.

If you attend Pcc, treat it like another country: keep your goal your education and try to stay out of trouble. If you get kicked out, it should be for taking a stand against wrong (very possible) and not for pulling a prank or goofing off.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:55:07 +0000

Robert, their thing is they don’t want you to teach for anyone other than those in their “little group”. Even within Baptist Fundamentalism, there are many different “pockets” and groups, each with their own heirarchy, structure, rules and regulations, preachers they like, etc. The goal is for the kids from their particular “click” to go to their colleges, graduate and then teach at their particular Christian schools. That way, they know exactly what they were taught and how they were brainwashed.

Which is convenient, since the kids won’t be able to get a job anywhere else.

I know of cases where schools finally changed and became accredited after many years, so their kids can have a better chance at getting jobs when they leave and they were kicked out of their “click” because they had “compromised” and were becoming “too Liberal”; not a compliment to Baptist Fundamentalists. That is probably the worst thing that you could be called. A ballistic insult. (Below Atheist, of course!).

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:38:00 +0000

We have family members associated with PCC. They are pretty much Arminians who believe in eternal security.

PCC uses the word hyper-Calvinism but what they really mean is generic Calvinism. PCC wants to claim guys like Charles Spurgeon so they object to HYPER-Calvinism rather than the Calvinism of Spurgeon. In the classroom though ALL Calvinism is rejected.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:29:04 +0000

By: Michael Mock

Michael Mock — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:51:47 +0000

150 demerits

■ Sexual misconduct, immorality (and/or any state of undress)

A literal reading of this would suggest that it’s impossible to change clothes without earning enough demerits for expulsion. That must make those trips to the beach kind of interesting…

By: Qohelet

Qohelet — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:03:23 +0000

Re: Hyper-Calvinism

Good for them. Five-point calvinists are jerks. Give me Pelagian heretics any day. :p

By: Robert Madewell

Robert Madewell — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:05:23 +0000

The following types of music are not permitted: Current popular music

Yeah! That should cover it! Don’t listen to anything that’ll make your toe tap. Rhythm is satan’s whatever!

They may never drive east toward Navarre.

Satan waits for you over there! Mwahahahaha!

Pencacola? I didn’t know there was a Pensacola in Iran!

I love making fun of PCC. I have a few friends that attempted to graduate from there. PCC is probably the best place for breaking a young christian’s spirit and causing them to doubt their religion and it’s awful holy book. I commend it. Keep up the good work, PCC. I just wish they weren’t so harsh. Then again, if they weren’t so harsh, they wouldn’t be driving young adults from their brand of Christianity. Bruce, has there been any suicides linked to explusion from this hideous place?

I (at one time) considered attending Calvary Bible College in Belton, Missouri. It is a very similiar school to PCC. At the time, it also was unaccredited.

I have heard a few horror stories about graduates from unaccredited schools not being able to find teaching jobs at public and some christian schools. (My sister-in-law had to retake a test in order to be able to teach.) Why would anyone agree to attending an unacredited college, other than ignorance?