Yay - my husband finally left the Catholic Church!

[Anonymous]

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Jesus was born a Jew and died a Jew -- it even says so in the Bible -- "King of the Jews" was written at the foot of his Cross.

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As an aside, you realize Jesus didn't make that sign for himself, right?

Right , but I seem to remember it coming up at the trial with Pontius Pilate

The sign was supposed to be mockery.

It was also the justification for Pilate's sentencing him to death. Roman officials didn't care about blasphemy against Judaism. They did care about Jewish political revolutionaries who might be usurping the emperor's power.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP is juvenile. "Yay, I won!" That's so Christian of you.

PS-- The Church doesn't have the monopoly on abuse. And you might want to look into the amount of charity it is involved in.

Catholic Charities spends $3.2 billion per year. Of that, most is government money. $581 million is private donors. Divided by the 78 million Catholics, that works out to $7.40 per Catholic.

[Anonymous]

OP here. My husband was quite active in church until he left for college, attending every Sunday, participating in youth groups, etc. But he realized he wasn't going to practice Catholic requirements of no sex before marriage, no birth control, felt women should be priests, gays allowed to marry, etc.

I refused to become Catholic as well, as my values are the same. But my husband couldn't quite get himself to go to a Protestant church until we found this one.

So it's great that we've found a church that shares our values and yet is so steeped in a rich tradition. It's just win-win for us.

[Anonymous]

OP, glad you found a home.

Many children leave religions in which they were raised. Many come back to religion (their own or a new one) as they get old. Tis how life is.

I have no idea why you feel the need to take swipes at Catholicism. You may want to keep that in check since you too have just now embraced a Christian way of life. You should perhaps check with your pastor about being more charitable which will help you become closer to Jesus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP is juvenile. "Yay, I won!" That's so Christian of you.

PS-- The Church doesn't have the monopoly on abuse. And you might want to look into the amount of charity it is involved in.

Catholic Charities spends $3.2 billion per year. Of that, most is government money. $581 million is private donors. Divided by the 78 million Catholics, that works out to $7.40 per Catholic.

Most is government money? What on earth does that mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, glad you found a home.

Many children leave religions in which they were raised. Many come back to religion (their own or a new one) as they get old. Tis how life is.

I have no idea why you feel the need to take swipes at Catholicism. You may want to keep that in check since you too have just now embraced a Christian way of life. You should perhaps check with your pastor about being more charitable which will help you become closer to Jesus.

Cannot "like" this post enough!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, glad you found a home.

Many children leave religions in which they were raised. Many come back to religion (their own or a new one) as they get old. Tis how life is.

I have no idea why you feel the need to take swipes at Catholicism. You may want to keep that in check since you too have just now embraced a Christian way of life. You should perhaps check with your pastor about being more charitable which will help you become closer to Jesus.

Then you really wouldn't like my husband's uncharitable comments about his former church, which he feels is morally bankrupt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Jesus was born a Jew and died a Jew -- it even says so in the Bible -- "King of the Jews" was written at the foot of his Cross.

--------

As an aside, you realize Jesus didn't make that sign for himself, right?

Right , but I seem to remember it coming up at the trial with Pontius Pilate

The sign was supposed to be mockery.

It was also the justification for Pilate's sentencing him to death. Roman officials didn't care about blasphemy against Judaism. They did care about Jewish political revolutionaries who might be usurping the emperor's power.

Yes, they mocked Jesus and yes he was a Jew. The Romans were Pagans. The Last Supper was Jewish sabbath meal - sometimes depicted as passover -- it certainly was the right seasons for passover ( in the spring --and passover and Easter are around the same time).

Certainly it doesn't come as much of a surprise that Jesus was a Jew -- it's all through the bible. Christianity was a movement that started after Jesus' death and was first written about (as far as we know) in the letters of Paul, decades after Jesus' death.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, glad you found a home.

Many children leave religions in which they were raised. Many come back to religion (their own or a new one) as they get old. Tis how life is.

I have no idea why you feel the need to take swipes at Catholicism. You may want to keep that in check since you too have just now embraced a Christian way of life. You should perhaps check with your pastor about being more charitable which will help you become closer to Jesus.

Then you really wouldn't like my husband's uncharitable comments about his former church, which he feels is morally bankrupt.

She can't help herself.

I'm relieved to not be sitting next to them in a pew every Sunday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, glad you found a home.

Many children leave religions in which they were raised. Many come back to religion (their own or a new one) as they get old. Tis how life is.

I have no idea why you feel the need to take swipes at Catholicism. You may want to keep that in check since you too have just now embraced a Christian way of life. You should perhaps check with your pastor about being more charitable which will help you become closer to Jesus.

Then you really wouldn't like my husband's uncharitable comments about his former church, which he feels is morally bankrupt.

What's the point of this? You've already established your husband didn't support the church's stances and became inactive decades ago. What value is adding how your husband would disapprove of the church; obviously, he left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, glad you found a home.

Many children leave religions in which they were raised. Many come back to religion (their own or a new one) as they get old. Tis how life is.

I have no idea why you feel the need to take swipes at Catholicism. You may want to keep that in check since you too have just now embraced a Christian way of life. You should perhaps check with your pastor about being more charitable which will help you become closer to Jesus.

Then you really wouldn't like my husband's uncharitable comments about his former church, which he feels is morally bankrupt.

She can't help herself.

I'm relieved to not be sitting next to them in a pew every Sunday.

If someone truly wants to be closer to God it doesn't take decades to find a church. Only people with an agenda take that long. Her DH did last for decades against her though. We have to give that to him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, glad you found a home.

Many children leave religions in which they were raised. Many come back to religion (their own or a new one) as they get old. Tis how life is.

I have no idea why you feel the need to take swipes at Catholicism. You may want to keep that in check since you too have just now embraced a Christian way of life. You should perhaps check with your pastor about being more charitable which will help you become closer to Jesus.

Then you really wouldn't like my husband's uncharitable comments about his former church, which he feels is morally bankrupt.

She can't help herself.

I'm relieved to not be sitting next to them in a pew every Sunday.

If someone truly wants to be closer to God it doesn't take decades to find a church. Only people with an agenda take that long. Her DH did last for decades against her though. We have to give that to him.

I don't think he was a beleaguered Catholic. I think he was a non-believer whose wife hates Catholicism and wasn't happy until he officially joined another faith.

I know a few couples in which the men who were raised Catholic, lost their faith as adults, and converted to another religion please their wives. The wives were uniformly shocked when the men dropped the new religion at divorce. It's not that they necessarily returned to the Church (1 guy next converted from Lutheran to Reform Judaism when he remarried.) It's that the new religion never took. Maybe fertile seeds on infertile ground? Who knows. The point is conversions should be internal, not driven by the need to pacify a spouse.

[Anonymous]

OP here. My husband was quite active in church until he left for college, attending every Sunday, participating in youth groups, etc. But he realized he wasn't going to practice Catholic requirements of no sex before marriage, no birth control, felt women should be priests, gays allowed to marry, etc.

I refused to become Catholic as well, as my values are the same. But my husband couldn't quite get himself to go to a Protestant church until we found this one.

So it's great that we've found a church that shares our values and yet is so steeped in a rich tradition. It's just win-win for us.

Really college? He was as much a catholic as you are. It seems you are just more in to bashing one church. What are your values? You have only talked about how your husband is no longer catholic. So does your new church have encourage premarital sex?

[Anonymous]

OP, your DH is a few years late. As of 2009 you can't file a defection from the church. So your husband is still considered Catholic and is still counted as Catholic in the total amount of Catholics worldwide.

[Anonymous]

And if someone wants to be closer to God they don't need to be posting about how HAPPY they are that their husband left a particular religion on DCUM. I too, am happy she will not be sitting beside me on Sundays. But perhaps that's also un-Christian behavior as well. I'll pray for her and say some Hail Mary's. No snark intended. REALLY? WHO POSTS SOMETHING LIKE THIS OP???? Didn't someone in your life teach you that some things are better kept PRIVATE even on an on ANONYMOUS forum? Do you have children - if you said so, I cannot recall because I am still getting over your Catholic hatred. What good Christian would post something like you did? I suggest you schedule a meeting with your pastor and maybe you and DH can schedule a religious retreat together so he can get acquainted with his new religion.

YOU WON!!!