Bob Jones University Ban on Interracial Dating Ended on March 1st, What Year?

 


When I saw the ban on interracial dating was banned on this date I guessed it was about the year 1950. I was surprised to see the ban existed until the year 2,000. This attitude from the Middle Ages was still with us until then. Much of Christianity is still in the Middle Ages. These peculiar beliefs, like the ban on interracial dating, will be gone in time.

The Middle Ages attitudes center of one concept, the righteous or morally correct are to control the lessors. It is men who possess the ability to be righteous and morally correct. Women are a sorry lot.

So we have only male clergy in much of Christianity. Forget about EVER allowing women in these branches. Oh yes but women really run things men say. If this is true why cannot they be clergy?

We discuss here often gay marriage and abortion. They moved up on the important sin leader board a while back. Probably they were not leading sins in the Middle Ages but are good proxies today for Middle Ages thinking--they are about control of lessors. Sinners are those to be controlled, women and gay people are sinners.

The Bob Jones heir who was President in 2,000 told his Board the issue of interracial dating was no longer of great importance to the University so he suggested the prohibition be dropped. Certainly it must have been importance back when the University was established. What happened to make it not important? I'll answer that: Changing social norms.

It reminds me of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. A while after Jerry was dead his son declared it was acceptable for students to wear flip flops. Someone once thought that was a way to control sexual urges. 

 I grew up in a religious life that was full of sinful taboos. In my case it was movies, card playing and dancing. When the first television station began about 40 miles away church people started wondering is it was acceptable to watch what was broadcasted. Some thought yes, others no. Then the local young preacher marched into our one general store and bought a TV. Everyone else bought one soon after. 

The Bible says we are not to know the "mind of God." We can understand why it is so hard to know the mind of God. There is no God.

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