Anonymous wrote:I am shocked that anyone could argue that Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism are the same and interchangeable.

Anglicans believe priests can marry, females can be priests, there is no papal infallibility, the wafer does not magically and literally transform into the body of Christ during the communion, faith alone is the key to heaven, the bible rather than the Church is the ultimate authority, and so on.

To outsiders things like transubstantiation may seem abstruse and recondite, but to believers they could be the difference between an eternity in the kingdom of Heaven and a one-way ticket to Beelzebub and his dark minions.

I draw a distinction between the tenets of a faith - and how most adherents practise the faith.

In much of the West, RCs don't adhere to many of the teachings of the church and yet consider themselves to be sincere in their faith.

Anonymous wrote:OP..I NEVER understand people like you. I'm a pretty flexible person, but there are about 4 things in life that are absolutely non negotiable and religion is one of them. How is this evenue an issue? My DH would feel foolish after asking this twice. I'd be direct and to the point. The second time I'd be so crystal clear there would not be a third, and if he tried a third time I'd be worried he might be suffering alzhhimers.

You must be pussy footing around the issue. Grow a pait and your problem will go away.

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I am exactly like you, PP. And I also can never understand people who don't put their foot down.

I'm a Hindu who has had many close Christian friends over the years who have tried to convert me. The first time I politely, sweetly, but firmly turn them down after explaining why. By the second and third time I'm so blunt, direct, and even harsh in words that they don't dare try again. I apply that approach in every area of my life and so far it has served me very well.

I am shocked that anyone could argue that Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism are the same and interchangeable.

Anglicans believe priests can marry, females can be priests, there is no papal infallibility, the wafer does not magically and literally transform into the body of Christ during the communion, faith alone is the key to heaven, the bible rather than the Church is the ultimate authority, and so on.

To outsiders things like transubstantiation may seem abstruse and recondite, but to believers they could be the difference between an eternity in the kingdom of Heaven and a one-way ticket to Beelzebub and his dark minions.

You were truthful and upfront about your plans from the beginning OP and your husband told you that he was okay with it.

So you assumed he was and now you find out he hasn't been all along.

His bad.

You have done nothing wrong here and he is the one at fault. He has to accept that you were honest from the get-go and it is his fault for not believing you from the start.

If he still doesn't accept what you have been telling him from the beginning, then that is all on him.

Discussion permanently closed. The end.

He needs to accept his fault and let it go.

Anonymous wrote:
It's one thing to discount a particular aspect of a religion when you've been born into it. But it's a much more difficult thing to do if you are thinking of adopting that religion as your own. That's one reason many converts to Islam are very fundamentalist/conservative. My Muslim born husband is fine with saying "bismillah" over his food and considering it halal. Many converts to islam will eat nothing but meat bought at a halal butcher shop. It's just harder to pick and choose when you start outside a particular religion.

That's interesting. I knew that about RC, but for some reason assumed it was specific to their converts.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Those of you saying it's all the same need to read up on transubstantiation. That and the authority of Rome are my issues, and non-negotiable. DH knew this.

Most RCs don't have a clue about transubstantiation? Some who might, don't really even think about it.

As far as the authority of Rome ....... give me a break! Every Pope has said that practising any artificial form of birth control is a sin yet the vast majority of RCs in the US and much of the Western world ignore that dicturm.

Well instead of converting to a religion and then ignoring it's tenants, it sounds like OP is doing the right thing.
Seriously, how can you criticize a woman for actually thinking through something?

Tell him it is due to their suppression of women and abuse of young children.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Those of you saying it's all the same need to read up on transubstantiation. That and the authority of Rome are my issues, and non-negotiable. DH knew this.

Most RCs don't have a clue about transubstantiation? Some who might, don't really even think about it.

As far as the authority of Rome ....... give me a break! Every Pope has said that practising any artificial form of birth control is a sin yet the vast majority of RCs in the US and much of the Western world ignore that dicturm.

It's one thing to discount a particular aspect of a religion when you've been born into it. But it's a much more difficult thing to do if you are thinking of adopting that religion as your own. That's one reason many converts to Islam are very fundamentalist/conservative. My Muslim born husband is fine with saying "bismillah" over his food and considering it halal. Many converts to islam will eat nothing but meat bought at a halal butcher shop. It's just harder to pick and choose when you start outside a particular religion.

Religion is such a personal thing. Nobody should ever be pressured to change. It's about your own personal relationship with God most of all, and with other adherents.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Those of you saying it's all the same need to read up on transubstantiation. That and the authority of Rome are my issues, and non-negotiable. DH knew this.

Most RCs don't have a clue about transubstantiation? Some who might, don't really even think about it.

As far as the authority of Rome ....... give me a break! Every Pope has said that practising any artificial form of birth control is a sin yet the vast majority of RCs in the US and much of the Western world ignore that dicturm.