Divorce- remarrying your divorced partner

[H0$$]

Yeah, that was pretty much my point Ros. Or, maybe I just needed something to argue about. 

[Ros]

Yep, my bad, I got carried away on the annulment discussion and see that the original poster never mentioned an annulment.

[Sofia325]

I'm still stuck on the idea that they want to get re-married. I can't even imagine doing that....and I don't know any other divorced couples that would either.

Good luck to them...

[new chapter]

I know can't imagine either but...I do know a couple who remarried after almost 10 years of being divorced - they were married 5 years the first time. They're coming up on their 7th anniversary (this time around) and are very happy. They say they had a lot of growing up and exploring or themselves to do but in the end discovered that it was always each other in the end. So I guess it can happen.

[slugbait]

So the church says we'll just play like that little "marriage" you had never really happened that way you can get married again and still go to heaven.

At the risk of offending any Catholics out there, the Catholic Church doesn't have the authority to decide who goes to heaven, they get to decide what their particular organization recognizes, and that's it.  Whether or not you "get a front row seat in Heaven" has nothing to do with the state of your marriage....Catholic, or not.

[m_t]

So the church says we'll just play like that little "marriage" you had never really happened that way you can get married again and still go to heaven.

At the risk of offending any Catholics out there, the Catholic Church doesn't have the authority to decide who goes to heaven, they get to decide what their particular organization recognizes, and that's it.  Whether or not you "get a front row seat in Heaven" has nothing to do with the state of your marriage....Catholic, or not.

To be fair, the Catholic Church isn't the only one with that mindset. So is almost any Faith.

[Wolfy]

I agree with Sluggo. We can decide what we think about other people here on this planet but God decides who goes to Heaven.

[slugbait]

And seriously, do you really know of any "Faiths" that hang Salvation on the status of your marriage ? I'm not sure that even the Catholics are that arrogant.

[m_t]

I don't. But a lot of Church leaders think differently (and frankly, the Catholics are nowhere near as arrogant as some others - shall we talk about Baptists and/or Born Agains?). Doesn't mean they're right. But let's not pin all the arrogance on one Faith. There's plenty of it to go around. 

[slugbait]

But let's not pin all the arrogance on one Faith. There's plenty of it to go around.

Yes, I will agree with this....at the end of the day, we are all equally as ignorant and small minded in our dogma......fortunately, I think He sees through all our self-rightous BS and knows our hearts, despite how much we distract ourselves with "Religion".  And perhaps "arrogant" was a poor choice of words.....I have others, but will choose discretion here.

[Wolfy]

You agree with nothing?? There is nothing in the quote box.

[slugbait]

Is that better ?

[new chapter]

Well it's good to see you boy's at it again    Play nice 

[Wolfy]

Don't tell us what to do NC!   

[slugbait]

Don't tell us what to do NC!   

Yeah, you're not the boss of us......M_T is the boss of us......