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(I’m the one who originally exclaimed disbelief/horror at his attitude) I’d missed that he used to be a Protestant; I’m guessing one of the weirder American varieties. I’m not religious, but from a traditionally Catholic country, and I suppose culturally Catholic (my grandparents were Catholic). Most of my experience with Christians would be Catholics and Anglicans. It _is_, I think, a fairly un-Catholic attitude (certainly post-Vatican II Catholic, which he would have to be, having been born after it), but maybe it fits better with evangelical Protestantism? That said, it’s surprising to me that someone who holds such views would marry someone of another religion; you’d think that either they’d respect the spouse’s beliefs, or find them a barrier. The middle ground of “I can marry this person, but also _they should convert_” is pretty odd to me. (I mean, honestly in this case I’m kind of assuming that it’s performative for his audience, and that he didn’t hold any such views when they got married, and probably still doesn’t. Because you’d be a fool to take this guy at his word. But if it’s _real_, yeah, sorry, that’s pretty fucked up) |