God's commands against divorce in His Word are not unconditional, though He did say He hates divorce. He knows human suffering in relation to disasterous marriage because humans are naturally sinful and unloving. The commandments are overwhelmingly on purity and chastity. Divorce is really a case by case; the problem happens if the divorcee or divorced look for sex like animals on the expense of God's honor and the protection of children. Christians must protect marriage as if it's life itself, but there is a way to live out God's will even if divorce is committed.
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"God's commands against divorce in His Word are not unconditional"
Ummm... :( Is that in the Bible, sweetie??? 'Cause if not then you're no better than those libdrool pinko commie fascist comunists!!1 :)
God, What have I written?
So you won't be voting for the many times-married Donald Fart, Kimmy?
Also, Newt Gingrich. NEXT!
He can hate it all he wants, but it doesn't alter the fact that at least two of my friends' lives improved considerably after their divorce, both remarried to much nicer men, at least one of them found her true soulmate after divorcing her first husband, the other was a domestic violence survivor.
Then again, your god is apparently only happy when all of humanity is miserable, so I guess these women are still evil in your eyes for daring to find happiness in their lives.
Watch out, Grace. You're stepping dangerously close to the precipice of thinking for yourself. You know your god doesn't like it when people with vaginas do that. It starts a ripple effect.
First you start allowing yourself to think independent of what your pastor and husband tell you, then you get a divorce and start fucking everything in sight. Then you become a whore and lose all of the grace your god has granted you.
Scary, scary, scary.
"He hates divorce."
Yet christian cake bakers have absolutely no problem baking cakes for adulterers on their second, third, fourth, or moreth marriage. And this is despite one of the ten commandments explicitly forbidding adultery.
Didn't Jesus say that divorce is ONLY allowable in cases of adultery?
And that in a culture where the order for the day was: "A wife is to be *her husband's* baby factory, noone else's! So 'adultery' is 'a married woman allows a man other than her husband to fuck her!'"
Thankfully, King Henry VIII was able to help institutionalize divorce at right about the same time God decided, "Well, it's not that bad."
Grce, people get sexually mature around fourteen or so, but are told they should "wait until marriage". Then they choose a partner off the shelf of available mates. Then they grow up for a few more years .....and realize that they haven't made the best choice, back when they were younger and stupider. Divorce happens; divorce is not "committed" as if it is a crime. But the only divorces that are any of your business are those happening in your close family.
This is... surprisingly level once you get past the bile. What it seems to amount to is "I... er... God doesn't like divorce, but sometimes it happens. And it's your fault. But it's still kinda understandable if you don't go around rutting like an animal afterward."
For a fundie, this is practically sitting around singing Kumbayah and banging a tambourine.
God's commands against divorce in His Word are not unconditional, though He did say He hates divorce.
Conservatives, on the other hand, love divorce. Which is why they call same sex marriage a threat to traditional marriage but say absolutely nothing about divorce.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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