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dsewell Donating Member (437 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 09:41 PM
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Bob Jones University website slashdotted and/or hacked, apparently
Edited on Thu Nov-11-04 09:45 PM by dsewell
The infamous open letter from Bob Jones III that was reprinted in an earlier DU posting is housed at http://www.bju.edu/letter . For the last four hours Bob Jones University's website has been inaccessible, returning "Host not found" error messages.

The link was posted on Salon.com today and probably on a bunch of other websites. (Aha--looks like the Associated Press has picked up the story, too.) I guess today a whole lot of people are following the example set by GWB in 2000 and visiting Bob Jones University...

I'd guess that the site is offline simply because of the sheer volume of incoming traffic. According to http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/10158683.htm&filter=0">the AP story, a BJU university spokesman is trying to backpedal on the letter:
Jonathan Pait, a spokesman for the university, said the letter was placed on the school's Web site because Jones had read it to students in chapel and many told their parents about it. He said Thursday that Jones had not received a response from the White House.

Pait said it would be a misreading of the letter to think that "everyone who voted for the Democrats is a pagan" or that "if you voted for John Kerry you are a despiser of Christ."

"For example, there are those who voted for John Kerry because they opposed the war in Iraq," Pait said. "Dr. Jones did not intend to paint everyone with that broad a brush."

I.e., the letter did not say what it said. Pathetic.
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 09:45 PM
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1. OMG, that letter was just sick....sick and wrong. What kind of name
are Christians being given with that kind of attitude????
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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 09:46 PM
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2. That's OK.................
they're being outed as to what they are. Bigoted, hate mongering, Christianazis (no offense meant to REAL Christians). Maybe a few in America will wake up to the kind of people Mr. Bush is laying down with. I imagine ONLY a few though.
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 09:53 PM
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3. LMAO! What, pray tell, could possibly be misread as
"if you voted for John Kerry you are a despiser of Christ."

Hmm, let's see, maybe he said:

"If you voted for John Kerry you are a despiser of Frist."

Or:

"If you roll around in the berries you may develop lice."

Heck, it could have been anything... :eyes:
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 02:57 AM
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4. What if it was really
If your legs are hairy you won't look nice?

:+
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