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Mithalwen · 08-05-2005, 06:14 AM

I don't judge him, I just dislike it..... and I think it's consequences damaged her. I cheered when I read in the bio that Edith went back to the CofE late in life and just wish she had done it years earlier. But to an extent it is about the role of wives in that era rather than Catholicism per se....

It was the rules of his Church not his god he was putting first - the God of the Cof E is the same as the Catholic one..... I don't think the love of God justifies oppressing your wife. Anyone who thinks it does should not marry...........

08-05-2005, 06:14 AM	#6
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,463	I don't judge him, I just dislike it..... and I think it's consequences damaged her. I cheered when I read in the bio that Edith went back to the CofE late in life and just wish she had done it years earlier. But to an extent it is about the role of wives in that era rather than Catholicism per se.... It was the rules of his Church not his god he was putting first - the God of the Cof E is the same as the Catholic one..... I don't think the love of God justifies oppressing your wife. Anyone who thinks it does should not marry........... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace