Sorry, was hard to tell. I know tons who feel the same way about all religion. *shrug* |
I rarely call troll but this one makes me wonder. |
Don't feel guilty about his family's reaction to your husband's decision to not observe some incredibly arbitrary rules set down by a group of men a long time ago in a place far away for their own reasons.
These factors are all remote and abstracted from the relationship between you and your husband which is where your focus (and his) should be. |
I wish I was trolling. In reality, I just have high anxiety about certain things. |
My wife was raised Catholic and she insisted on marrying outside the church because we would have had to pledge to raise our kids Catholic. We are now the parents of two happily non-Catholic kids. I don't know if you have kids or plan to someday, but it might have been a factor for him. |
We have kids, baptized outside the Catholic church. He says they're the reason he left for good, but there's that nagging doubt that it's me (we had fights about me attending mass when we were first married). I mean, clergy of all denominations have abused children, so it seems like a tenuous reason for cutting ties completely with one specific church. Right? |
I'm sure this is true. However, given that Catholic priests are limited to men who choose not to marry, I feel like they are statistically more likely to be abusers. Having said that, parents can forbid their kids from being in any situation that puts them alone with their religious leader. |
Fair enough. And he's already put that rule in place. Maybe I am worrying about nothing - just can't go over that this is the exactly reason the Catholic Church frowns on mixed marriages. |
Well, that’s pretty broad. Christian covers everything from Eastern Orthodox to snake handling Pentecostals. Which brand are you? I could never attend one of those feel good mega churches with a rock band and light show. The Righteous Gemstones is like a documentary of that sort out of church. |
We've attended (fairly high) Episcopalian churches since our wedding. |
My Catholic DH married me, a Presbyterian. What drove him from the church was their sexism, homophobia, and pedophilia. He is a deacon at our Presbyterian Church niw. |
Did you really grow up Christian without knowing these things about Catholicism? Where are you from? |
That makes absolutely no sense. Married men abuse children all the time. |
I've never stepped inside a Catholic church, so yeah, I had no idea. The extent of my knowledge was that they believe in transubstantiation and give things up for Lent. |
Religious bigot. |