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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the many reasons I stopped believing.  So someone who escapes an abusive husband can't ever get communion again?   That doesn't seem very God like.  I've found religious people to be the most intolerant and judgy people I've ever met.  [/quote]

I have some personal experience with this as my mom was divorced and my parents did not get married in a Catholic Church and she did not get an annulment.  So growing up, yes, my parents used to sit in the pew while everyone else took Communion (my sister and I were OK to take Communion though)

At the time, I thought it was an incredibly ostracizing feeling — like we have this God of love and grace and yet my parents were excluded from what is clearly the most important part of the Mass on the basis of a bad decision a long time ago.   This absolutely skewed my view of religion for a long time.

Now, as an adult, divorced myself, I can understand the theological reasons for the Catholic Church’s position.  But I still think they are wrong on this.

The Bible is clear that we get Jesus’s perfect record before God through her faith in him — even when we are sin and do not deserve it.   Romans 8:1 is clear that there IS no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.   My non-denominational church would not preclude someone from taking communion just because they were divorced.

Which gets to my larger point — this isn’t a reason to stop believing.  Does the Catholic Church’s position on this one single issue mean that Jesus didn’t rise from the dead?  All of Christianity turns on THAT issue — not this issue.  [/quote]

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