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True Dough

(20,870 posts) Tue Jul 23, 2019, 03:50 PM Jul 2019

Evangelical Sex and Relationships Writer Announces Separation From Wife

Do as he says, not as he does...

Joshua Harris, one of the most influential voices on sex and relationships for a generation of evangelical Christians, announced this past week that he and his wife are separating after 20 years of marriage.

Harris' book, I Kissed Dating Goodbye, was published in 1997 when he was in his early 20s. It became a manual for young evangelicals looking for love.

In recent years, Harris has apologized for some of the ideas he promoted and publicly wrestled with them in a documentary. In an interview with NPR last year, Harris talked about going through that process with his wife, Shannon.

"I think it's made us realize how there's heartache and there's pain no matter which pathway you choose in life," Harris said. "There's no path that you can choose that can protect you from that."

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/21/743926857/evangelical-writer-who-influenced-purity-culture-announces-separation-from-wife

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Evangelical Sex and Relationships Writer Announces Separation From Wife (Original Post) True Dough Jul 2019 OP

Thoughts and Prayers IggleDuer Jul 2019 #1

I wish them exactly as much mercy, sympathy, and forbearance as they have shown others. Girard442 Jul 2019 #2

Interestingly enough, Evangelicals PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2019 #3

The rule book is unambiguous Major Nikon Jul 2019 #4

Jesus had a lot to say about adultery and fornication. Act_of_Reparation Jul 2019 #5

IggleDuer

(974 posts)

1. Thoughts and Prayers

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Tue Jul 23, 2019, 04:30 PM

Jul 2019

N/T

Girard442

(6,434 posts)

2. I wish them exactly as much mercy, sympathy, and forbearance as they have shown others.

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Tue Jul 23, 2019, 04:36 PM

Jul 2019

No less, and certainly no more.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,847 posts)

3. Interestingly enough, Evangelicals

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Tue Jul 23, 2019, 04:38 PM

Jul 2019

divorce at even greater rates than non Evangelicals.

Here's something I pulled from this source: https://www.learnreligions.com/divorce-rates-for-atheists-248494

11% of all American adults are divorced
25% of all American adults have had at least one divorce
27% of born-again Christians have had at least one divorce
24% of all non-born-again Christians have been divorced
21% of atheists have been divorced
21% of Catholics and Lutherans have been divorced
24% of Mormons have been divorced
25% of mainstream Protestants have been divorced
29% of Baptists have been divorced
24% of nondenominational, independent Protestants have been divorced
27% of people in the South and Midwest have been divorced
26% of people in the West have been divorced
19% of people in the Northwest and Northeast have been divorced

I sort of love it that Baptists are more divorced than any other group.

Major Nikon

(36,911 posts)

4. The rule book is unambiguous

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Tue Jul 23, 2019, 05:07 PM

Jul 2019

I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.

—JC

Meanwhile JC had not one thing to say about homosexuality, yet most evangelicals claim there can be no compromise while conveniently ignoring the instructions when it’s inconvenient to them personally.

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)

5. Jesus had a lot to say about adultery and fornication.

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #4)

Wed Jul 24, 2019, 08:23 AM

Jul 2019

So, still plenty of gay-hate in The New Adventures of Hippy Jesus, even without a direct mention.

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