The best way I've heard it was a Protestant assistant pastor giving a talk and saying, "Have you ever noticed how older single people get kind of weird? I mean, no disrespect, but they sometimes think very odd things. But I know what that doesn't happen to married people. The other day, I was getting dressed, and I leaned on the dresser, looking into space, and my wife says to me, very sharply, 'STOP IT. You're thinking something weird.' And I came to, and realized, yes it *had* been something weird. But single people don't have any spouse to call them on it.
The Church can act like a watchful spouse in areas of Theology.
Cheers!
Good post!
That makes a lot of sense, actually. Except it only works if your spouse pays attention to you, so I’ll be taking off to the Zeus colony with my psycho Pat when his mother ship comes for us ...
Thank you for sharing your insights, dear grey_whiskers!