Posted on 04/01/2006 6:40:33 PM PST by twippo
Well, I am a rabbi's wife, and I have never had the urge to shoot my husband multiple times.
Maybe I have had the urge once or twice but I never actually DID.
Just another symptom of the "let's kill our wounded" mentality that's fairly common in many of our "Christian" churches.
Consider the source. Another stupid article by the AP, trying to blow out of proportion a rare incident.
Suddenly, celibacy for the clergy doesn't seem so unreasonable.
Evidently divorce didn't occur to Mrs. Winkler. She ought not be given any extra consideration as to punishment. IMO!
Divorce is unthinkable to most evangelicals.
And murder?
well? why are we having this discussion?
She answered, "I married him until 'death do you part', so divorce was out of the question."
She waited a moment before continuing, "Now MURDER is another story."
LOL. Bless you, my dear, and I'm sure your husband is most grateful for your restraint :)
Many's the husband whose had the same thought!!
If divorce is so unthinkable to evangelicals, then why do Christians have a higher divorce rate than atheists? Look it up...a Barna poll, I believe. Surely if it's a choice between divorce or murder, even the most dogmatic among us would opt for divorce.
Boo FReakin' Hoo!
LOL. I don't think that is a feeling limited to the wives of rabbis or ministers!
In the foot could be a good warning.
"If divorce is so unthinkable to evangelicals, then why do Christians have a higher divorce rate than atheists?"
I'd stack up the divorce rates of church-going Christians (or any other faith) against atheists anyday.
Sadly, the vast majority of people who report themselves as "Christian" are Christian in culture only, rarely if ever attending a church service.
the Church of Christ is not really considered evangelical. They are somewhat cult like and believe that anyone not baptized is not a Christian.
The sorts of evangelicals that become pastors and pastor's wives are not so comfortable with divorce as the average nominal non-deonominational.
I don't read, respect, or pay attention to Barna.
As for the last comment, you assert a choice, with what seems like a reasonable conclusion. The operative word there is "reasonable."
"Seems he was available to everyone in the congregation but never there for his own wife and kids. That's the sad fact of the chosen way of life."
That was my experience growing up in a parsonage as a preacher's kid. Everyone else got the good parts of Dad, and I got the emotionally and physically exhausted man that was left (and that wasn't at all fun).
The divorce rate among clergy is shocking. It would seem that clergy are on a mission from God (or so they think), and one of the sacrifices that they think they must make is the sacrifice of their family.
Alice Cooper... Preacher's Kid. Suprised?
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