Family Values?
Wednesday April 4, 2007
The critical reaction of to an (excerpted) East Bay Express story (Raising Pagans) about an ecumenical Pagan/Catholic family is, unfortunately, fairly typical of Freepers:
"Which says that his wife’s happiness is more important than HIS faith. This doesn’t let us know much his knowledge of his faith, but it says a huge amount of where his faith is in the importance of what matters in his life."Derision is heaped on the Wiccan spouse for her 'dangerous' and 'silly' beliefs with even more scorn reserved for her Catholic husband for not divorcing her and absconding with her children forthwith- because everyone knows Wicca offends Christian values, at least in Freeper land- but it's apparently not just acceptable, but required, to abandon those values at the drop of a hat, if one's wife is a Wiccan.
Comments
From the article; he (the husband) told the Express. “I joke, but there’s some seriousness because I think there are like evil energies and entities out there. I’m concerned that if she opens herself up to those kinds of things that there is a potential of …”
i thing the evil he was referring to was all the catholic priests (evil entities?) mollesting childern and the church covering it up without regard for the trauma (evil energies?) done to the childern or their families. the way the article made the wife out to be a crackpot makes me worry about the future of our real religious freedoms in this country. signed’ a career military NCO, decorated veteran, republican, active voter, and a wiccan
In this day and age, I feel this husband and father deserves credit for not abandoning his family! I would seriously question any religion that wants to break up a family.
I agree. I find it mildly amusing that a religion that fervently preaches “family values” is pro-separation under such arbitrary circumstances. A happy marriage isn’t necessarily based on biblical standards (I somehow seem to recall that there is a 23% divorce rate amongst evangelical ministers).
And the froth and vitriol in the comments tell just as much about hatred in the xian religion as the content of the article does.
Ok, so if a Catholic couple wants a divorce, they’re a dangerous threat to the sanctity of marriage. If a Wiccan marries a Catholic, she’s dangerous, period, and that jusifies a divorce. Sounds like alarmism to me. Happy families are anti-family values, because they’re not doing what the Church wants them to!
Wouldn’t it just be more honest to say “Church Values”?
It is hard to believe any of this is taken seriously. How can a church that proclaims its self to be the cornnerstone of family values while taking the stance that any such family should be broken up. I don’t remember ever seeing any press about Pagans or Wiccas molesting children, shattering marriages or even burning anyone at the stake of public scrutiny. But then I am Athiest.
I read the whole article, in response to: “it says a huge amount of where his faith is in the importance of what matters in his life”
Well love doesn’t have a religion, I mean for centuries, many paople have converted to other religions in favor to one of their spouces, here they are not doing that, which is great, they are working together, and that people is love… I think that as long as the children believe in something higher than themselves, and is oriented to well-being, it’s ok what they are doing. They are raising a child who will truly grow up to be free and decide their faith.