Comment on How to stop a parent from jumping into the nearest religious rabbit-hole to cope with a divorce?

• ZombieChicken@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So, technically, divorce isn’t the sin. Getting involved with another person, however, is adultery. You can divorce, and, if the other person isn’t Christian and divorces you, you can even remarry (Pauline Privlidge). Generally speaking, the Church advocates for seperation instead of divorce in cases such as abuse.

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m assuming the more hardline you go, the harder the rules get.

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  • nickiwest@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My parents got divorced in 1981. My mom was raised Pentecostal (the Tammy Faye Bakker kind, not the long skirts kind), and she was intermittently ultra-involved in the church.

    During one of those times (in the mid-'90s), she came to the understanding that she could never remarry because the only “biblically acceptable” reason for divorce was unfaithfulness. Since that wasn’t why she and my dad got divorced, dating anyone else would be considered adultery. So she swore off dating.

    To be fair, I don’t know if this is something that came from the church or something she came up with on her own. I just remember thinking it was pretty ridiculous.

    So whether it’s official church doctrine or not, I do think that the more extreme the church, the more extreme the rules are.

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  • compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s probably a fair assumption

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