So much for supporting those family values. Wouldn't it be interesting to study how many "irreconcilable differences" are actually religious.
2007-03-28 03:39:00 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I've seen a couple personally go down the tubes because one partner "gets the spirit of the lard" and becomes so rigid and illogical the other has to take the kids and run. The Lard came first and the family was secondary over some twisted interpretation of the bibble. I have no statistics but it is as you said happening a lot more often than is spoken about.
2007-03-28 03:46:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 6⤋
Yeah it really hurts those marriages. Christianity teaches a guy how he can be a better man, husband, and father. It also shows a girl how to be a better woman, wife, and mother. Boy those are certainly terrible things.
Grow up and learn to take responcibility for your own actions. Peoples marriages don't fall apart because of religion, they fall apart because of selfishness. Those who chose not to hold the needs of their partner above their own, often find themselves looking to get a divorce.
Instead of complaining about your partner, you change yourself and look to simply grow up. Becoming an adult is far more than just reaching a certain age. Children do what they want and what they feel. Adults take responcibility for their actions. They actually keep the commitments they make. It seems to me that we have too many children getting married these days and not enough adults.
Divorce should be a last resort and not because you can't be mature enough to think about someone else first.
2007-03-28 11:39:49 · answer #2 · answered by Nate 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, you should know a person's religion before you marry them. i do know for a fact that couples who pray together stay together...it has been shown that those who have faith in their marriage have a lower divorce rate. My parents got divorced because it wasn't against my dad's religion to do so. So I guess n that sense, it occurred because he didn't believe it shouldn't..even though he was the one who was cheating. I respect people to not have religion, but I certainly don't blame religion because a man can't keep it in his pants, or whatever other reasn people get divorced. It is always selfish, and is never about the children, much less about religion.
2007-03-28 11:26:45 · answer #3 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Probably, very few as people with zealous religious beliefs would tend to marry individuals with similar values.
How many marriages are wrecked due to a lack of religious belief might be a better question. But it is also a question that, based on your past questions, your anti-religious bias will not permit you to ask or even acknowledge.
2007-03-28 10:48:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
my wife is an enthusiastic scrapbooker and by friends was invited to a scrapbook get together. It turns out it was a scrapbooking event that was featuring marriage advice by the religious right. Among the critical discussions was "my husband complained about me leaving drawers slightly open rather than fully closing them." This is the kind of thing that these people argue about. If your marriage is tumultuous over this kind of thing you have serious problems and likely living together could have made you realize you were making a big mistake.
I can tell you this...
religious zealots are the people who feel they need alot of forgiving.
frequently these people are ex drug abusers and sex addicts note the number of catholic priests and prominent fundamentalist little boy lovers.
2007-03-28 11:01:59 · answer #5 · answered by Prophet of Zero Gods 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I have found that most marriages are wrecked not from religious zealotry, but by quite the opposite. In today's world "The devil made me do it" is no longer tolerated. Most marriages are wrecked due to lack of respect for the other partner.
2007-03-28 10:43:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 3⤋
Tom Cruise's marriage?
2007-03-28 11:12:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think religion is the reason for any divorce. However, I feel that many people put too much faith in the fact that religion or faith in God will save the marriage if there are problems.
2007-03-28 10:43:58 · answer #8 · answered by pussnboots333 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Religion is a destructive to many personal relationships. Often times one partner becomes obsessed with living the fantasy life religion provides that they loose focus of the real one.
2007-03-28 10:57:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I think most marriages that fail do so because one or both partners do not take their vows seriously. Sadly, for many, marriage is no longer sacred.
2007-03-28 10:53:32 · answer #10 · answered by Truth B. Told ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋