Interracial Marriage

CC, thanks for the link; looks very interesting & I'll check it out later!

 

I don't believe there is anything wrong with interracial marriage. Society is quick to criticize such a visual contrast when so many couples hastily rush to marry people outside of their own religious beliefs! Likeness in Christian attitudes is a more important factor in a healthy marriage.

 

Along with Thomas, there is no such thing as an interracial marriage, since we are all one race.

For those who wonder how different appearances developed, I ask you to look at dogs and what we have done with them in just a few hundred years! Once a group is isolated, either artificially (animal breeding) or geographically (migrations, etc.), characteristics that are later associated with that group show up.

Isolated gene pools give recessive traits (variations) a chance to be expressed in the isolated population. This is the reason that the ONLY place very light blonds with blue eyes were at one point to be found in northern Europe. Blue eyes could be tracked a few other places, as could lighter skin tones, but that combination was a result of an isolated gene pool and not some kind of 'evolved' progression as Hitler (and MANY others before him and since) believed.

This did not make them a separate race. It simply showed they had been an isolated gene pool of the human race. It is far healthier for the entire human race to encourage mixing of these gene pools with 'interracial' marriages, as a matter of fact, so that the health that comes from such combining can be established.

Biblically there is a strong mandate AGAINST prejudice against other 'races' as can be seen in God's lession to Miriam when Moses married a black woman! In the new Testament, "whether Jew or Greek" has the same connotation, meaning "no matter what population or group the person comes from."