Interracial marriages on the rise, but social stigmas persist

[Armoured]

Not really. Independent assortment will mix and match various skin color genes parents can produce children with lighter skin color than either parent, or darker than either parent. By allowing combinations, we increase diversity.

Not over a long enough time scale.

 

[Norah63]

Sounds to me like you're reading me wrong.

 

[Joykins]

I believe my usage of organic and inorganic is entirely correct. Race is FAR more than skin color, and your posts have not really shown otherwise.

We are all carbon-based life forms.

 

[TLK Valentine]

The OP states....social stigmas persist in interracial marriages as if that isn't good. To me, the question should be...Why are there stigmas in the first place? Should they be overthrown? What are God's teaching on what some regard as "social stigmas?"

Is it now okay for same sex marriage because someone is gay? What does God say?

Is it now okay for interracial marriage because someone thinks so? What does God say?

Is it now okay for people to take handouts from the government rather than work? What does God say?

Is it now okay to allow the few to rule the many...to allow atheist to tell believers you can't pray, you can't refer to God, you can't, you can't, you can't because it may offend someone? What would God say?

Is it now okay to do whatever anyone wants because...they think it's just fine and dandy?
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Stigmas are defined as, "a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation." So, should "stigma" be used in regards to Biblical teaching on how one should live one's life? What would God say?

So what, in your opinion, does God say on the topic of interracial marriage?

 

[bhsmte]

Sounds to me like you're reading me wrong.

Who are you replying to and in what regard?

 

[Savior2006]

The OP states....social stigmas persist in interracial marriages as if that isn't good.

It isn't. A stigma against a person doing something that doesn't harm himself or others reflects more on the person doling out the stigma rather than the person getting hit by it.

Is it now okay for same sex marriage because someone is gay? What does God say?​

Leviticus says put them to death. Funny how Christians back off on that part.

Is it now okay for interracial marriage because someone thinks so? What does God say?

Nothing apparently. It bears repeating, you are basing your opinion on mixed marriages on stuff the Bible says about plants.

Is it now okay for people to take handouts from the government rather than work?

Don't look at me. I'm not the military industrialist getting paid by the government to give them hardware like the F-22 Raptor that they will arguable never need to use.

Is it now okay to allow the few to rule the many...to allow atheist to tell believers you can't pray, you can't refer to God, you can't, you can't, you can't because it may offend someone?

In other words, you can tell other people what to do with their lives, including policies that enforce that stigma and make it legislation, but other people can't tell you what to do?

Is it now okay to do whatever anyone wants because...they think it's just fine and dandy?

It's worth reminding you that you've not actually explained why mixed marriages are bad.​

 

[CaDan]

Is it now okay for interracial marriage because someone thinks so? What does God say?

Maybe we could consult . . . I dunno . . . the entire Book of Ruth?

*drops the mic*

 

[Armoured]

We are all carbon-based life forms.

New Zealanders aren't. They're silicon based, we think, but honestly, who wants to get close enough to one to dissect it?

 

[YeShallTread]

Originally Posted by YeShallTread

Is it now okay for people to take handouts from the government rather than work? What does God say?

Is it now okay to allow the few to rule the many...to allow atheist to tell believers you can't pray, you can't refer to God, you can't, you can't, you can't because it may offend someone? What would God say?

Is it now okay to do whatever anyone wants because...they think it's just fine and dandy?
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Stigmas are defined as, "a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation." So, should "stigma" be used in regards to Biblical teaching on how one should live one's life? What would God say?

Let's check:

Originally Posted by acts 4:34-35

34 For there was not a needy person among them, for all who were owners of land or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sales 35 and lay them at the apostles' feet, and they would be distributed to each as any had need.
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So [serious], you are comparing the huge group of people lining up for welfare, disability, food stamps, free phones, free housing, free healthcare, free, free, free with...."the needy." There is a difference in those in need and those with their hands out.

What would God say about those able to work that prefer to stand with their hands out?



1 Timothy 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Now, now, kids -- let's get back on topic.

So, YeShallTread -- what does God say on the topic of interracial marriage?

 

[Savior2006]

Sounds to me like you're reading me wrong.

You were talking about how "Nobody is going to be satisfied" until all the races are "completely mixed."

Nobody here has said that. So what are you talking about?

 

[YeShallTread]

The science has been posted right there, it refutes your claim. And you're right, simply saying there is race when there is not does not make it true.

Saying there isn't race when one has eyes to clearly see race is rather silly and slightly obnoxious. Apparently you believe there is a problem with the various races...otherwise why not simply recognize what is before you.

It's interesting that you use the Bible to push a concept as biblical when that concept appeared 1500-1600 years after the life of Jesus.

Which "concept" is that? Have you read the Old Testament for it was before the life of Christ.

It remains a social stigma because it takes time for a society to unlearn foolish racism. It used to be taboo for blacks to sit anywhere they want on a bus, it was still a social stigma when the law outlawed segregation, thankfully that is no longer the case.

There is "foolish racism." Always has been and probably always will be but that has nothing to do with this topic. Segregation needed to be done away with...that has nothing to do with interracial marriage.

 

[YeShallTread]

Maybe we could consult . . . I dunno . . . the entire Book of Ruth?

*drops the mic*

Okay...please do although it has nothing to do with interracial marriages.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Okay...please do although it has nothing to do with interracial marriages.

So what in the Bible does have something to do with interracial marriages? What does God say on the subject?

 

[YeShallTread]

We are all carbon-based life forms.

Indeed. We are all human. What does that have to do with interracial marriages. If all humans were of one race we wouldn't be having this conversation...would we?

 

[ChristsSoldier115]

Must be the way I view race, but arguing against interracial marriages is like arguing against lefthanded people marrying right handed or brunettes marrying red heads.

..which I am against.. creepy gingers...

 

[TLK Valentine]

Indeed. We are all human. What does that have to do with interracial marriages. If all humans were of one race we wouldn't be having this conversation...would we?

Actually, if more people realized that we were of one race, we wouldn't need this conversation... see the difference?

 

[KarateCowboy]

How does interracial marriage reduce diversity? If you have chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream, selling chocolate swirl and neapolitan don't reduce your offerings, they add to it.

Gentrification. I think that's the word they use for it.

If you went by the historical definition of "race", then virtually all Americans are of mixed race, and the products of inter-racial marriages. Anyone who is part Polish or Russian, but also Italian, or English, or Scottish, is mixed race. This gentrification is so powerful that it has altered our very idea of race.

 

[ChristsSoldier115]

This would be the correct answer. An interracial marriage is not better than an intraracial marriage. Rising rates of interracial marriage are a positive indicator for our society, in my opinion, showing that we're dividing ourselves less by race. It doesn't mean abolishing unique cultures, it means a move toward Black and White or Hispanic and Asian being as significant a difference as English and Italian or Texan and Illinoisan.

hey I am against those dirty shady, shifty, no good Illinoisans creeping around here.

If my daughter dated someone from Illinois I would DISOWN HER!

 

[CaDan]

Okay...please do although it has nothing to do with interracial marriages.

Ruth was a Moabite, not a Hebrew . . . .

Yet, she says to her mother-in-law, "Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me."

Yet, she marries Boaz.

Yet, she is the great-grandmother of David and, through him, the ancestor of your Lord and Savior.

Is Jesus of Nazareth--the very Word of God, the Alpha and the Omega--a mixed-race mongrel and the product of a marriage of which God does not approve?