Interfaith marriages-do they work?

seven-day-weekend

RAS wrote: »

Can I remind you what happened when Lord MacKay had the audacity to attend the funerals of two fellow lords?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mackay,_Baron_Mackay_of_Clashfern

Lord Mackay did the right thing.

RAS

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Lord Mackay did the right thing.

Maybe but the consequences in his ex-church and the communities around Scotland were extreme.

In some places one adherent of the old church was allowed take possession of all the assets of the old church and all the others who had contributed were evicted from the premises. Left a lot of hard feelings and in some cases family against family.

Dunroamin

Treevo wrote: »

You try telling people outside of the New York or LA that you're atheist - probably won't end well. That's what I mean by 'Christian'.

Even in San Francisco?;)

Dunroamin

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

You mean the basics like God being Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Jesus being the Son of God who died for our sins and was resurrected ?

Those are the basics and they are the same in Catholic and Protestant. Read the Apostles' Creed.

I know people have fought over them. Never seen why personally.

Usually it's for political reasons with religion being nothing but an excuse.

wiogs

I don't know who St Augustine is or was either!

But no need to link to him as I have no interest in who he is or was or what he might have said.

Do the various flavours of Christianity share Saints? Or do not all versions have saints?

neverdespairgirl

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

St Augustine summed up how it should be:

“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”


― Augustine of Hippo

Wasn't he the "God make me chaste... but not yet" chap?

Dunroamin

wiogs wrote: »

" I have friends who are RC and CofE, there is not a problem there at all because it is the same religion"

To clarify because these religions have the same beliefs (basically) there are no problems?

I am glad that works for that couple.

Sadly in the wider world those same basic beliefs cause lots of problems.

Thank you for the link to the Apostles Creed, not something I have ever read before. Doubt I will have cause to read it again.

You don't seem to have grasped that Catholicism and Anglicanism are not different religions but different denominations of Christianity.

wiogs

Apologies. I should have put denominations


I am aware that they are both versions of a Christian religion

neverdespairgirl

wiogs wrote: »

I don't know who St Augustine is or was either!

But no need to link to him as I have no interest in who he is or was or what he might have said.

Do the various flavours of Christianity share Saints? Or do not all versions have saints?

Well, you should know. Living in a country formed by such matters, you are cut off from the past if you don't know and understand some things about them.

As between the Catholic and Anglican Churches - pre-Reformation saints are mostly shared. Post-reformation mostly aren't. Some of hte medieval and dark ages ones have been binned by one or both churches because they appear pretty apocraphyl.

The Orthodox churches, which split away centuries before the Reformation, mostly have their own saints.

Saints, however, are significantly more important in Catholicism than in Anglicanism.

Hermia

Treevo wrote: »

You try telling people outside of the New York or LA that you're atheist - probably won't end well. That's what I mean by 'Christian'.

Ha! I worked in America for six months and it was the first time I have every felt discriminated against for being an atheist. It was actually quite scary at times. Made me appreciate how tolerant the UK can be.