"That's the Devil's temperature!"

I was talking to one of my former undergraduate academic advisors today and we got on the subject of premillennial dispensationalism and fundamentalist Christian beliefs on Israel-Palestine. He told me he has a good friend who works at Brigham Young University, and that as part of the teaching job he has to lead a study abroad program in the 'Holy Land', the core of the curriculum being to prove that Israel is fulfilling God's promise and the prophecies on the End of Days. As if that wasn't bat shit crazy enough, apparently as a professor there you are expected to abide by their strict moral code, which stipulates that you cannot drink warm beverages. I shit you not. I instantly thought of Kenneth Parcell from 30 Rock when he said he's never had coffee because "That's the Devil's temperature." I had no idea that joke was based on something real.