I'm sorry if it seems this way -- frankly, I don't recall anyone making such a suggestion -- we have criticized the church and its teachings of course and have been a sounding board to bring things to the front that he might should confront, but that isn't meant to be a suggestion that he hasn't "thought it through." In fact, the opposite -- I have been particularly impressed at how much knowledge he seems to have about the various councils and doctrines. I just have a hard time seeing how he can ignore what he's been taught as a Lutheran, doctrinally. I certainly understand how praxis can have frustrated him (as it often does me), but I just see even that as being worse in most Catholic circles I've been exposed to. Anyway, I didn't even realize from the conversation that his decision had anything to do with his wife. Steve's last post is the first time it even really caught my attention. It is the very fact that Thomas seems to be a thinking man who takes such things as oaths and confessions and doctrine seriously that I have failed to see how he could change so drastically. Clearly from his later posts his doctrinal move here isn't as large as mine would be, so that answers much of my surprise at how someone informed could convert to the RCC.USMCatholic wrote:I am kind of disappointed with some of the forum responses relating you to almost being a weak-kneed husband that will simply follow his wife without looking into scripture and history himself.
Don't get me started with Beckwith.