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My wife is Christian... i'm not sure what I am.
#21
RE: My wife is Christian... i'm not sure what I am.
There so many variables that only you can know.
Is she uber-devout? Are her parents devout and do you see them all the time? Does she accept the religions of others? Has she ever been shown the many contradictions of the Bible? Are you willing to fake it for the rest of your life? Are you willing to let your children be indoctrinated with what you believe to be lies? ...... you see, there's a lot of things you have to consider.

Me personally. I believe in honesty. Throw your chips in the air and let them land where they may.
Marriage is a partnership. I have found that to be a VERY true statement. Success in marriage is much the same as in business. Partners that deceive eachother don't last and success will always be shortlived if you manage to have any at all.
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#22
RE: My wife is Christian... i'm not sure what I am.
And by no means least...just what IS IT YOU believe??

Honesty, Trust that is earnt...and perhaps the willingness to "discover your lives together" will be the strength of your 'marriage'
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#23
RE: My wife is Christian... i'm not sure what I am.
Could that be a little latent theistic tendency showing min Big Grin
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
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#24
RE: My wife is Christian... i'm not sure what I am.
It's like Herodotus with the Sacred Whores, Tacky.

Quote:The foulest Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land to sit in the temple of Aphrodite and have intercourse with some stranger once in her life. Many women who are rich and proud and disdain to mingle with the rest, drive to the temple in covered carriages drawn by teams, and stand there with a great retinue of attendants. But most sit down in the sacred plot of Aphrodite, with crowns of cord on their heads; there is a great multitude of women coming and going; passages marked by line run every way through the crowd, by which the men pass and make their choice. Once a woman has taken her place there, she does not go away to her home before some stranger has cast money into her lap, and had intercourse with her outside the temple; but while he casts the money, he must say, “I invite you in the name of Mylitta” (that is the Assyrian name for Aphrodite). It does not matter what sum the money is; the woman will never refuse, for that would be a sin, the money being by this act made sacred. So she follows the first man who casts it and rejects no one. After their intercourse, having discharged her sacred duty to the goddess, she goes away to her home; and thereafter there is no bribe however great that will get her. So then the women that are fair and tall are soon free to depart, but the uncomely have long to wait because they cannot fulfill the law; for some of them remain for three years, or four. There is a custom like this in some parts of Cyprus.

You know...you don't have to 'believe' to appreciate the fringe benefits.
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RE: My wife is Christian... i'm not sure what I am.
(April 27, 2011 at 2:44 am)Minimalist Wrote: You know...you don't have to 'believe' to appreciate the fringe benefits.

maybe christianity would see a comeback if they offered more of those fringe benefits ... you know, ones that weren't just for the catholic priests.Wink
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RE: My wife is Christian... i'm not sure what I am.
(April 26, 2011 at 10:18 am)IDKWTB Wrote: It really hit me the other day when my wife and I got in our car after church and she started to cry. She asked me "Why don't you pray with me?"

I took her hand, gritted my teeth, and said a prayer.

I'm not sure who was on the other end of that prayer, but she felt better afterward.

That was last week, and since then I've been having severe anxiety about my future with my wife. I don't know what to do. I'm afraid if I tell her that I have no faith, then my marriage is doomed. I'm not sure what I believe anymore.
That's marriage for you - a ball and chain. ^^ Your wife resorting to using emotional blackmail to get you to do what she wants is natural.

Just tell her prayer is supposed to be personal, and you need to pray elsewhere, alone and privately, otherwise God will strike you down for being a hypocrite. If she doesn't believe you just quote Matthew 6: 6 and Matthew 23:14, that'll get her off your back for while.
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