Irish-American woman becomes latest Bride Of Christ.

All nuns are brides of Christ. They make the same declarations this woman did of chastity and obedience and lie on a floor to do it. The consider themselves married to god and wear a silver wedding ring.

The old style convent life is dying out anyway - now nuns live in smaller groups, some in convents but they prefer to call them communities now. - the local ones to our house live in a semi-d over the road and wear regular clothes. Like a blue-rinse flatshare.

Lollipops23 wrote: »

I think it's sad that she's missing out on one of the best parts of being human. And for what? The magic man in the sky?

That said, she's not hurting anyone. I just feel sad for her.

Yeah, it's so sad. She could be sucking on twenty three lollipops right now.

Lollipops23 wrote: »

I think it's sad that she's missing out on one of the best parts of being human. And for what? The magic man in the sky?

That said, she's not hurting anyone. I just feel sad for her.

If she really is a virgin at 38, I think she'd most probably be continuing to miss out on one of the best parts of being human even if she hadn't thrown the sky-man into the mix.

smash wrote: »

Bottom line... Is she Irish or American?

Because I think we should let them have her!

White middle class American woman is her voting demo anyway, Irish American is no longer recognised by political academics. We've assimilated, hurray.

Terrible pity cause you'd slip her one

flanzer wrote: »

She's hawt.... what a waste

There's more photos and a video of her here (Apologies for Daily Mail link)

Personally, I think she looks a bit masculine, but that wouldn't matter when she's as mad as a bottle of crisps.

Candie wrote: »

Leave the woman alone, she doesn't deserve to be ridiculed when all she's doing is living her life the way she feels is right for her.

Who do you think invited all the media etc into the church? She wants the attention from it and she's getting it, good bad or indifferent.

Nobody has said she shouldn't have the choice to do what she wants to do, but people have the choice to laugh at how ridiculous it is too.

the only thing disturbing here is the overtly sexual thoughts about the woman.....like its an offense shes not sexually available to the op......internet leering at its best

Cold War Kid wrote: »

Very true - yet I'd bet some would be OK with/approve of this.

Still though, whatever misgivings I have about the church as an organisation, she wants to do this - she has hardly been forced into something that would be so unthinkable for most of her generation in the western world: chastity and extreme devotion to religion. Despite some thinking 38 is akin to being geriatric it's a generation that's still fairly with it and were only teenagers in the 90s.

I respect her unwavering independence, and unlike a lot of self-proclaimed catholics/Christians, she truly walks the walk.

My opinion of what she's doing in and of itself is: it's not the healthiest, and a lonely Road. It may be symptom of psychological issues but may not. She has had plenty of time to think it through and consider its ramifications for her life though, and it doesnt really matter what I think: I'm not her. And she is hurting nobody other than maybe herself (maybe) so live and let live imo.

That's what most people will worry about when they read this story. Of course there's no harm to anyone else. Many of us will see it as indoctrination/ brainwashing taken to the extreme, and not only that, but facilitated by the culprits.

I could easily say that she loks like Ken Doherty in a fancy wig, but that would be childish of me. I could ask whether 'Jesus' had any say in this marriage, and I would be accused of being flippant. How did 'HE' sign the registry form. The questions are many.

We are expected to keep shtum and 'leave well alone', but it's just so easy to expose the lunacy of this carry on. What a massive waste of time that ceremony was. Normally I would assume this was an article from The Onion, but because of the story's religious nature, it's wholly believable.

Let us not forget that there was no shortage of 'followers of christ' voicing their concerns, during the SSM referendum, over the slippery slope fallacy. "If gays can marry, then people will be able to marry their pets" they said. Where do we go from here, where a woman can marry 'Jesus'? Can a woman marry Abraham Lincoln, Socrates, Alan Ladd etc?

There will be plenty of religious hypocrites on here asking reasonable, sane people not to judge. Yet they judge our gay community. Thou art not able to has it both ways.