Pensacola Christian College

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Pensacola Christian College (or PCC) is a lovely unaccredited institute of higher learning, founded by 1974 by minister Arlin Horton, and located right down the street from Dinosaur Adventure Land. The college has 1500 staff and 4700 students, approximately 1 staff member for every three students. They also run "A Beka Book", a propaganda mill publishing house providing sermons textbooks to Christian homeschoolers the world over.

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[edit] Tha rules

PCC follows a "morally sensible" and "educationally efficient" policy of gender segregation. Indeed, any physical contact between members of the opposite sex (evidently including shaking hands[1][2]) is strictly forbidden. To help students conform to this, all stairwells and elevators on campus are segregated by gender. Patronizing movie theaters or public libraries, visiting the dormitories of the opposite gender, profanity, listening to any music other than pre-approved Christian music, having hair of the wrong length, and off-campus meeting of members of the opposite sex are grounds for immediate expulsion. Additionally, protests and petitions are expressly forbidden, as is possessing, distributing, writing, or reading "unauthorized literature", an umbrella term under which virtually every single book, magazine, and newspaper ever written is generally assumed to fall under, unless a specific exception is made.

[edit] Coursework

As a college of "true" Christians, PCC does not include any coursework that could conflict with a strictly literal reading of Genesis - it teaches Young Earth Creationism and the Great Flood. PCC is not forced to deal with subjects such as evolution. PCC teaches a literal seven-day creation by God of the universe approximately six thousand years ago. PCC also denies Sigmund Freud's work on psychoanalysis.

[edit] A Beka Book

PCC's publishing house, "A Beka Book" (named after Rev. Horton's wife, Rebekah) supplies a full range of fundamentalist Christian textbooks to homeschoolers, most of which espouse creationism.

Some highlights from the catalog:

[edit] Pensacola Christian College in the Real World

The only employers who have a positive view of an education from PCC are other extreme fundamentalist loons. If a graduate is lucky, they might be able to get hired by one; it helps that the competition in this field is somewhat limited.

The highest opinion other employers form about an education from PCC is if they have never heard of it.

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. http://www.pensacolachristiancollege.com/resources/pcchandbook2001.txt
  2. http://www.pensacolachristiancollege.com/rules.htm "There is to be no physical contact between students of the opposite sex, except perhaps on some 'dating outings,' where hand-holding games are played."
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