RE: Damned Catholics
April 10, 2025 at 11:44 am
(This post was last modified: April 10, 2025 at 11:45 am by Fake Messiah.)
Filipino women fight for the right to divorce in a deeply Catholic country
Considering that marriage is a passport to Heaven, divorce is forbidden in the Philippines. Even if you are married to a person who beats you up every day.
You have a Catholic priest claiming that the Church doesn't interfere with the laws of the land, but then you see him visiting the parliament on the regular basis to make sure that politicians follow church teachings on voting for the laws.
But it's not just the Catholic Church that is forbidding divorce, the Baptists also claim that divorce will destroy the sanctity of marriage. And that the people pushing for divorce laws do it because they want immorality and adultery, so they also want to destroy the family and thus the whole society.
The Philippines is the only country in the world, apart from the Vatican, where divorce is illegal.
In this predominantly Catholic nation, there is intense pressure to uphold the sanctity of marriage.
This leaves many women trapped in violent and abusive relationships.
But a growing number of Filipinas are fighting to change the law.
101 East travels to the Philippines and follows these fearless women as they battle for the right to divorce.
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/101-ea...ic-country
Considering that marriage is a passport to Heaven, divorce is forbidden in the Philippines. Even if you are married to a person who beats you up every day.
You have a Catholic priest claiming that the Church doesn't interfere with the laws of the land, but then you see him visiting the parliament on the regular basis to make sure that politicians follow church teachings on voting for the laws.
But it's not just the Catholic Church that is forbidding divorce, the Baptists also claim that divorce will destroy the sanctity of marriage. And that the people pushing for divorce laws do it because they want immorality and adultery, so they also want to destroy the family and thus the whole society.
The Philippines is the only country in the world, apart from the Vatican, where divorce is illegal.
In this predominantly Catholic nation, there is intense pressure to uphold the sanctity of marriage.
This leaves many women trapped in violent and abusive relationships.
But a growing number of Filipinas are fighting to change the law.
101 East travels to the Philippines and follows these fearless women as they battle for the right to divorce.
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/101-ea...ic-country
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"
