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  • 07-12-2018 10:30am
    #1
    ZiabR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭


    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45968315

    As an atheist I find this disturbing. I respect all religion and peoples right to practice, but this doesn't sit right with me.

    Odd.


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    creepy as fck

    mental illness stuff rly

    like those ones who fall in love with buildings

    but no harm


  • #3
    buried
    Registered Users Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭buried


    Good way to get wedding presents without having to share the $$$$$$$$

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • #4
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Meh...harmless stuff really. They're just overly religious and devote themselves to God.


  • #5
    Blackhorse Slim
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 1,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Blackhorse Slim


    I hope Jesus signed a pre-nup


  • #6
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,631 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    A nun is the spouse of Christ. It's been a thing since nuns were invented.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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  • #7
    Bigbagofcans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    I'm an atheist too but I don't see this as any different to becoming a nun. It's strange but they're not harming anyone.

    I've a problem with religions when they harm other people and promote homophobia etc.


  • #8
    mickdw
    Registered Users Posts: 23,256 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Just a nun who doesn't want to live in a convent and only get to keep pocket money.


  • #9
    topper75
    Registered Users Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Jesus... a mormon?... a muslim?
    What hope have we now?


  • #10
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    Isn't that what a Nun is? A bride of Christ but in this case an every day person without the penance in a convent?

    Even when regular people get married in a church the idea is that 'God' is there to bear witness to it.


  • #11
    RobbieTheRobber
    Registered Users Posts: 6,738 ✭✭✭RobbieTheRobber


    ZiabR wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45968315

    As an atheist I find this disturbing. I respect all religion and peoples right to practice, but this doesn't sit right with me.

    Odd.

    I dont believe in any gods, so I find this as weird as any other maifestation of religous belief!


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  • #12
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Mad as a bag of cats.
    But all the best to them, go live your life girl!


  • #13
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    ZiabR wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45968315

    As an atheist I find this disturbing. I respect all religion and peoples right to practice, but this doesn't sit right with me.

    Odd.

    Nice looking woman too, what a waste.


  • #14
    Sleepy
    Registered Users Posts: 24,140 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Hopefully less of a waste of a life than taking vows in a convent. At least this way she's still free to work and contribute to society.


  • #15
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Sleepy wrote: »
    Hopefully less of a waste of a life than taking vows in a convent. At least this way she's still free to work and contribute to society.

    Nuns work, harder than most folk.

    eg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzmscOLisac

    https://www.sistersoflife.org/

    The orders care for their own sick and elderly, make altar bread, pray, are self sufficient, care for needy folk physically and mentally..


    and the real work of a consecrated virgin is prayer


  • #16
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    Yeah, prayer - real work.

    But I'd only find this disturbing if it were forced on people. It's odd and likely symptomatic of deeper issues but if she's only doing it to herself by choice, then that's a-ok in my opinion.


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