Well, evidently you and I are sinners in the minds of the "real, true" conservatives.
Not just you guys....
Add me to your list of "sinners"
Guess what, this one ought to send you reeling. I didn't know you were divorced and couldn't possibly care less. That's your own private business and has no impact on the person you are. For once, we agree on something.
This thread will go into the hundreds.
Throw me in there, too.
The level of crap masquerading as "conservatism" on Free Republic has friggen multiplied exponentially as of late.
I don't know either one of you, but if it makes you feel any better - I'd say that everyone on this platform are sinners, real and true conservatives included.
Looks like I'm on that "Hell Bound" list too.
At least I die secure in the knowledge that my EX is doomed as well.
Even the most painfully pious among us are sinners. I'm not sweating it.
Any Pastor who does not counsel serious action when a spouse threatens to kill you or the children, is not worth their salt. When the spouse is pushing drugs on the children, again - serious action. With repeated actions, the more serious the consequences and the big "D" coupled with the law has to be one of them.
A Pastor that doesn't recognize Divorce for sexual repeated infidelity in the day of AIDs is not listening to the Lord or Scripture.
The liberals will allow divorce for any incompatibility and the ultraconservatives for none. Both extremes are to be avoided.
I would be insulted by the tone of the article, but it sounds like most of my mother's side of the family. Count me in for the conservative sinners club :/
I'm a member of the "club" too, then.
Cheers! CC :)
Add me. I have a great Christian marriage now...not so in my previous life!
Me too...me too!
Should we create a ping list? ;-)
If you are a Christian you are a sinner in your own mind, divorced or not.
However, I cannot judge others who do divorce. In fact, I have actually advised other family members, who are trapped in bad marriages, to get a divorce. Because a bad marriage is like a living hell. And anybody who cares enough about a person would never tell that person to "stick out" a marriage gone bad.
Both my wife and I come from broken families. Her parents broke up when she was 10. But my parents decided to stick out their bad marriage "for the kids."
Well I wish my parents had gotten a divorce. Because growing up in that house was a dreadful experience. From the time I was 12 or 13, I wanted to stay out of that house as much as possible because things were so tense and unhappy there. When I was 17, I joined the Marines because I just wanted to get away from that place and I never went back either.
So I will never cast judgment on those who decide to end a bad marriage. I believe that when a marriage is beyond repair, that parents actually have a duty not only to themselves, but to any children they might have, to end that chapter of their life and move on.
My sister-in-law just told me today that she's leaving my brother. As hard as it is for me to accept, I don't blame her one single bit. Sometimes, it's just inevitable and it cannot be fixed. I'm so sad right now. For her. She tried so hard.