Why is divorce more common among Evangelical Christians than among Atheists?
Answer : because marriage is a christian union. Many athiests just shack up therfore they dont have to divorce when they split. you cant blame christianity as a whole christians are jusyt people. I bet most serial killers are athiests, does that mean it is the fault of the athiests? that is not evidence it is simply your spin! ok correction marriage is generally a religous union. not necessarilly christian
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Um, no, you missed the point, honey. Among those who _do get married_, divorce is less common as a percentage among atheists.
"marriage is a christian union"
Does he not know that when correcting a post on the internet you can go back and delete something earlier in the post if you realize it was wrong? Why would he leave something wrong and then correct it rather than just deleting the wrong statement?
I suspect that one main difference is this. When a fundamentalist Christian marriage hits a difficult spot, one or both partners pray for a solution. When an non-believing couple hit a bad spot, they put their heads together and work it out.
you cant blame christianity as a whole christians are jusyt people.
According to your own New Testament, we most certainly can blame Christianity. If Christianity has no special power to reform people's lives, in this existence as well as in the supposed afterlife, then key portions of the New Testament are disproved.
@Berny "I suspect that one main difference is this. When a fundamentalist Christian marriage hits a difficult spot, one or both partners pray for a solution. When an non-believing couple hit a bad spot, they put their heads together and work it out."
And in a marriage between a fundy and a non-believer, the non-believer tries to work it out while the fundy expects them to compromise on everything... so the marriage falls apart thanks to the fundy being a stuck-up bitch who thinks the sun shines out of her arse.
Am I bitter much?
I'd actually think the lower instance of divorce is because atheists have a 1000% less shotgun weddings and/or a few more instances of cohabitation before marriage to serve as a test run, of sorts. So, she is right about the "shack up" part, to an extent. But, atheists do marry because marriage is emphatically NOT a "Christian union" exclusively (nor is it a religious one, since there are secular marriage contracts). And most serial killers are not atheists. Though, seeing the amounts of stupid atheists have to put up with, I wouldn't blame them if they were the main source of serial killers. I know that I wouldn't mind permanently shutting up people who just can't seem to keep their inane claptrap closed otherwise.
LESS than 1% of the people in prisons worldwide are atheist. In fact, the overwhelming majority are Christian. That's been the finding of EVERY SINGLE study on the topic.
@CT:
I really don't like to generalize and it does make me a bit ashamed to admit to thinking like this, but it seems like all the Christians I've met have had some pretty severe mental/emotional/personality defects that just make them unbearable to spend extended time with. Most of them seem normal enough most of the time, but put them under a bit of pressure and they break down entirely into irrational, lazy, petty thinking.
"Many athiests just shack up therfore they dont have to divorce when they split."
Citation needed plz.
Also, the point just did a barrel roll over your head at mach-2.
Atheists don't feel that they are being pressured to marry, so they take their time to make sure they're after the right person. If two people don't share the same ideas about child-rearing, a husband's role in the family, a wife's role in the family, how much money to save vs. spend, etc., they shouldn't get married to each other, because the marriage cannot work unless husband and wife are willing to work together as partners.
However, from what I've seen, a lot of Christians are all hung up about the whole sex issue. Rather than wanting to get married so that they can have a caring life partner to help them through whatever the world throws at them from child-rearing to cancer, a lot of young Christians want to get married so that they can have sex without breaking their religion's rules.
Sex is not, and cannot be, the sole foundation for a healthy, lasting relationship. The pre-marital sex ban was instituted to prevent young couples from using other people as sex objects, instead of loving them as people. But in the case of sex-crazed couples who rush into marriage, this religious ban has backfired horribly.
Damn, you made a good point and didn't even realize it. Yes, part of it is probably because atheists "shack up" and get to know each other better and make sure they're compatible in all aspects of their relationships.
I bet most serial killers are athiests (sic).
U. S. Prison Population: 2-million
Source: U. S. Bureau of Prisons
Um...apples to apples. They were comparing Evangelicals who had been married at least once to atheists who had been married at least once, not have-been-married Evangelicals to all atheists. Speaking in terms of percentage, more marriages involving Evangelicals end in divorce than marriages involving atheists. Please get your brains out of cold storage.
@ the L: I just saw this yesterday. A young Christian man wrote in to Boundless.org asking if it's okay to get married just because you want to have sex.
http://www.boundless.org/2005/answers/a0001873.cfm
[Many athiests just shack up therfore they dont have to divorce when they split. ]
Or it could be because they don't rush into marriages or try to work out the problems that they have.
[ I bet most serial killers are athiests]
Source please.
I have an answer to that that actually makes sense.
More evangelical Christians are getting divorced simply because more of them are getting married. And more of them are getting married simply because there ARE more of them. It's not a point of pride for the atheists and it's not a point of...whatever this schmuck is trying to make it be a point of...for the fundies, it's just statistics.
Yes, your unrelated, unsubstantiated link completely resolves the concern of the group staking out morality and family values entirely for their exclusive model.
If God has joined all these people together, His return rate sucks.
I'd say it's because a lot of Christians have been taught that sex belongs in marriage, so they marry to have sex. Later they find out that they don't get along with that first fling long-term, and divorce. Atheists often live together for a couple of years, get to know each other pretty well, THEN get married and often live happily ever after. Perhaps more Christians find themselves accidentally pregnant, they can't or won't get an abortion, and marry to take care of the kid. Most atheists believe in contraceptives.
Most serial killers are men, that doesn't mean that most men are serial killers. Serial murder is a pretty rare crime, so it's best to take each case on its own “merits”.
Marriage is a legal contract.
“Why is divorce more common among Evangelical Christians than among Atheists?”
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