Bob Jones III Quotes
… a cult
Bob Jones III, Protestant Cleric and President, Bob Jones University, Description of the Catholic Church, Quoted in The Washington Post, January 13, 2001
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He and his news team were given permission to do interviews in North Korea. The ruler, Kim Il Sung, is virtually worshiped by most of the population.
The President nominated Pat Garrett, the killer of Billy the Kid and others, as the Customs Collector of El Paso. This was a very significant position as Customs Duty was a primary source of Federal income in an era with no income tax. Garrett’s nomination, however, produced a firestorm of Texas opposition which surprised the President. It turned out that the famed lawman and gambler was not opposed because he had killed or gambled. He turned out to be an agnostic.
The King, a religious exremist fanatic, was a great supporter of the Inquisition whose excesses were horrible during his reign.
The Torah comprises the first 5 books of the Bible (Old Testament). The Arab countries of the Middle East are not alone in having to content with ultra-religious clerics who want to control the government and use it to impose religious law on the entire population. Israel also has the problem. In the Arab countries to deny being religion is to put yourself in danger including risking your life. So no one really knows what proportion of the population supports the religious imposition from the government. In Israel, however, this is easily determined by polls. The majority of Israelis are secular Jews. Of the religious Jews, the majority of them believe in extensive separation between the state and the religion. But there is a minority of ultra-orthodox which would have Israel to be a Theocracy. They are a minority but they are politically very strong. They receive large financial support from extremely wealthy Americans, have religious political parties, are extremely passionate advocates, and are willing to devote huge amounts of time to make Israel a more religious state and ideally a theocracy. Ironically, there is a great religious and philosophical similarity between the extremist Jews of Israel and the extremists Muslims in many of the Arab nations. They both want a theocracy. The only difference is which religion should the Theocracy represent.
Robert Reynolds Jones III was the third president of Bob Jones University. The son of Bob Jones Jr., and the grandson of Bob Jones Sr., the university's founder, Jones served as president of BJU from 1971 to 2005.
