I am curious about how they define “inter-racial dating”. I mean since it is in the South, historically that would imply no black/white contact.
But do they have a very narrow definition of “white” that excludes all Hispanics, Mediterranean type people, or even Jews - as many white supremacists do? Would they have thrown a fit if a Latin American (even one that looked more or less “white”, and was from the upper class of his country) courted a southern belle?
Also what if someone who was the result of an interracial marriage wanted to become a student? Or just a quarter Cherokee?
Also, their degree may be worthless from the standpoint of mainstream academia, but I would bet quite a few fundamentalist Christian private schools, colleges, and church related non-profits would gladly hire a BJU (sorry!) graduate - otherwise no one would bother with spending time and money for their degree in the first place. What do BJU alumni become, other than pastors?
I live in Michigan. I know a Zambian woman who is a Christian. I’m an agnostic honky. Consider the implications here in terms of this issue. If she tried to convert me to Christianity, would this be against the Bible?
Modern white supremacy a la the neo-Nazi skinhead isn’t really what BJU is all about; what we have here is more of an old South “keep the uppity niggers away from our white girls” my-white-manhood-is-threatened thing going on. Sorry to use that word, but it describes precisely what’s going on.
I live near Wheaton College, Billy Graham’s alma mater and not quite as nutty as Bob Jones–no machine-gun armed guards, for instance. It makes its students sign a pledge stating they won’t drink, smoke, date, dance, play cards, screw, perform virgin sacrifices (though I saw a ceremony that looked like it was heading there while driving past one night), or any of the other things that make going to college worthwhile. (They just had their first school-sponsored dance and it was a bit contraversial while looking like a cotillion in 1955.) Anyway, I just learned that one of their grads is Wes Craven. I guess he deals with the experience by splattering faux blood and guts all over the screen.
Mr. TeaElle recently worked with a BJU alumni who is a bar-admitted lawyer in the states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut as well as the District of Columbia. Despite my smirking suggestion, he didn’t go to the law school at Pat Robertson’s college, either. The lack of accreditation apparently didn’t harm him, but he did graduate from BJU a number of years ago.
I live down the road from Bob Jones University. You can usually point out BJU students in the mall very easily. The guys are always wearing pants and dress shirts and the girls are in long dresses.
BJU has one of the best religious art collections in the country. I was a dating an art major and she made me go with her to see it. She was a little creeped out to go alone. She drinks, smokes, cusses, gambles etc. She is a sinner
Well, my brother died from cancer years ago, so I grow my hair out to get it cut every two years to donate to Locks of Love. BJU frowns upon long hair on men. While at the art museum one of the worker bees said I had to leave because of my long hair. I explained to him why I have long hair. He said it was fine, but I had to put it up in a har. The entire time, the worker bee followed us throughout the museum. He kept a eye on us. It was creepy.
Isn’t that a definition of a religious fanatic? Someone who’s just doing the same thing that God would have done, if he had been aware of all the facts.
Hiya. Bible college grad here. As a very broad statement, there is some merit in that description, but it’s only slightly more accurate than saying that most State University students like to party and get drunk. For BCs in general a good 10-15% come from non-Christian families and most were public-schooled.
Bob Jones is the extreme. I went to Moody in Chicago, and we used to hear horror stories from transfers from there (Pensacola is the other really nutty one). My favorites were the seperate male/female staircases and the guy who had his camera temporarily confiscated. He was taking pics of his girlfreind on her graduation day, wearing a ankle-length dress. Apparently the were concerned abouth her standing in the light and him ogling her silhouette. :dubious:
So it was God’s intention that natives of the Americas, Asians, Australians, etc. would NEVER get a chance to hear the gospel, and therefore forever be doomed to hell?
Not disputing you, but what exactly do you mean by “non-Christian families”? Are these college students who are attracted to a Christian environment in spite of their upbringing, or what?
I worked with a woman who attended Columbia Union College partially as a rebellion against her Catholic parents. Not sure who footed the bill for that one. (Not trying to start an “Are Catholics really Christian?” argument here, but the RCC and the Seventh Day Adventists don’t appear to have a lot of common ground.)
I’ve always gotten the impression that well off families who aren’t quite well off enough to bribe one of the Ivy’s (or don’t want their children attending liberal schools) ship their children off to vastly overpriced Bible Schools where they got mostly worthless liberal arts degrees.
Really? It always seemed to me that extreme Protestantism (is that a word?) and approving of religious art didn’t go together. Probably just because I had a roommate that was thinking of going to BJU and she thought icons and church decoration were idolatrous and wrong.
Well, they were Christians; you’re required to sign a doctrinal statement to enroll. But they may have converted in high school or in the military or at some point. Then of course you have the kids from mixed/split families or whatever.
Actually, if you start counting uncles, step-parents, etc, I’d say probably 1/3 to 1/2 have non-Christian family members.
