Fundy U: BJU edition

[elfdream]

I attended BJ for four years. Met my husband there but did not graduate. I followed all the rules and did everything they asked but still never felt like I 'fit in. I was in no way 'rebellious.'

I can't go into detail over what all my problems were because for all I know all the people who drove me crazy back then may well have seen the light and 'come out of it all' themselves by now. I know they have changed the way the do some things so those arguments would be moot points as well.

I will say I had great problems with their racial policies. Never agreed with them or understood them. Never thought they were Biblical and when they told my half Korean raised as an American friend that she could only date 'Asian' men while a half Chinese raised as an American guy was free to date anyone he liked that was the beginning of the end for me. She eventually left the school. They also told another Asian American girl that she had to 'break up' with her white boyfriend.

I didn't make a big fuss..just quietly left.

I remember being shocked when Bob Jones told Larry King that they never used Scripture as a base for those policies...I remember well hearing over and over about "God establishing their bounds of habitation'....something I thought odd because if that was followed to the letter then Europeans should never have taken over the Americas like they did...

And in the interest of full disclosure you should know that I am a reservation born enrolled member of the Eastern Cherokees...so that might well have colored my attitude while there.

When it comes to my time at BJ I try not to think about it but sometimes it happens like a bad flashback.