(December 6, 2012 at 3:05 pm)Dee Dee Ramone Wrote: Anybody else eager to share happy stories involving Christian morals?
Eager? Not exactly, but I've got a few. Here's one:
My mom was a strict Catholic. She met my dad, they got pregnant, and had a shotgun wedding. Dad's a bipolar alcoholic, and generally very unpleasant person (to put it mildly). Mom went and talked to a priest about wanting to leave dad about 2 years into the marriage. The priest asked if he beat my mom or my brother (I wasn't around yet). No. So the priest counseled her to stay in her shitty, emotionally and verbally abusive marriage (I believe it became physically abusive at some point, though I'm not 100% sure about that) because divorce was frowned upon by the Church. About 8 years later, I came along. They finally divorced after a total of 16 years together. It's a mind-fuck to realize that your family would have been better off if your mom had just up and left the psycho-drunk well before your birth, thus negating your existence.
I think valuing the "sanctity" of marriage above the emotional, psychological, and physical safety and well-being of members of a family falls nicely into the "fucked up Christian morals" category.
Don't feel weird about sharing, Dee Dee. Think of it like emotional/psychological vomit, better out than in.
