Re: The impact of fundamentalism
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 1:12 pm
Look, I've never been married nor had any kids, but I do think this observation is accurate. If people biblically speaking had no restrictions on divorce and remarriage would you see some people getting divorced for the silliest and shallowest reasons? Yes, you sure would. I know of a man who lived over in Tyler who married a really pretty woman. She came down with breast cancer and they had to take her breast off. He divorced her because he didn't want a woman with one real breast anymore. That is not something you should divorce for. Don't feel too bad. He was very well off an she got a lot of his money in the divorce (and I am glad she did shallow [derogatory term] he was)
But you can be so afraid of people getting divorced for shallow reasons and try to protect the weaker spouse (usually the woman historically speaking) that you go the opposite direction and end up causing more harm by forbidding divorce all together. You stick two people together and they cannot seperate practically speaking and end up causing more harm and danger in the end, good intentions aside. This is what Jesus supposedly did in the New Testament, and I say supposedly because people may have put words in Jesus's mouth he did not say.
This is an area where Islamic theology, when propery followed, is superior to the Christian theology. Islam thinks of divorce as a horrible thing but we allow it. However, when a man divorces his wife she automatically gets so much of his material possessions and he still has to support her for a certain period of time.
But you can be so afraid of people getting divorced for shallow reasons and try to protect the weaker spouse (usually the woman historically speaking) that you go the opposite direction and end up causing more harm by forbidding divorce all together. You stick two people together and they cannot seperate practically speaking and end up causing more harm and danger in the end, good intentions aside. This is what Jesus supposedly did in the New Testament, and I say supposedly because people may have put words in Jesus's mouth he did not say.
This is an area where Islamic theology, when propery followed, is superior to the Christian theology. Islam thinks of divorce as a horrible thing but we allow it. However, when a man divorces his wife she automatically gets so much of his material possessions and he still has to support her for a certain period of time.