Oh well, since there are so many Trekkies on this forum, here is a problem that James Doohan had in his marriage solely because he was a Catholic. It is a problem that I presume arises with many couples of different denominations.
So he was ready to divorce his wife because of his religion but then decided to stay and suffer. And suffering came from him trying to make a Catholic marriage?
Quote:We came back from the honeymoon, and a married girlfriend of Janet's came to visit. The girlfriend was pregnant, and upon seeing her Janet thought, Oh, God, that's going to happen to me, because he's Catholic. He's not using condoms or anything else.
And damned if she didn't bring her mother and father into the bedroom to talk about the subject to me. They said, "Why don't you use these things?"
To say I was uncomfortable discussing it is to understate the matter. Janet had said she understood, she'd promised she'd understood, and now I was being asked—ordered—to justify very personal beliefs. "Because it's against my religion," I said. That's when I should have been smart enough to choose an annulment. I'm sure the church would have supported me.
But instead I stuck it out for seventeen years. You can't always be looking for a way to escape from an undesirable situation. So instead of trying to escape, I chose to stay and fight for something I believed in: a Catholic marriage.
Frankly, Normandy was a hell of a lot easier.
So he was ready to divorce his wife because of his religion but then decided to stay and suffer. And suffering came from him trying to make a Catholic marriage?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
