(March 13, 2012 at 3:42 pm)Ziploc Surprise Wrote: 1) On the surface the value of religion in discouraging divorce is to force married couples to stay together thus forcing them to work things out – to learn to live with one another.
A lofty goal... unless the relationship is abusive. My wife's sister was in a psychologically and on one or two occasions physically abusive marriage. Her husband used her Catholic faith against her, telling her how much of a sin it is in the Catholic faith to get divorced. It was just a manipulation tactic since he's not Catholic, but it worked because she stayed with him longer than she should have.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
