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elehhhhna

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3. My great-grand left Holland

Reply to dsc (Original post)

Tue Mar 19, 2013, 08:10 PM

Mar 2013

after MARRYING a Catholic woman (back then - eek!) - prettymuch got thrown out of the family for it. Funnything, though - I've worked the family tree back to Charlemagne (and beyond!) and our family was sooooooo Catholic back in the day that they sponsored building churches, abbeys, had Bishops and shit and MANY went out out on the Crusades. My takeaway: We are all so stupid and narrow and certainly misguided about "religion", and the world continues to spin.

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My grandfather quit the Catholic Church (or more fair it quit him) [View all] dsc Mar 2013 OP

good post Skittles Mar 2013 #1

One problem with equating Church to Country, is that you don't have to Cleita Mar 2013 #2

My great-grand left Holland elehhhhna Mar 2013 #3

Back in that day Cirque du So-What Mar 2013 #8

Read up on the Cathars. They weren't Catholic. eallen Mar 2013 #11

hey, cuz! we're all related. xox elehhhhna Mar 2013 #15

So what about the anti war Catholics? Kalidurga Mar 2013 #4

The "church as country" analogy doesn't work MNBrewer Mar 2013 #5

I totally agree Kalidurga Mar 2013 #7

You can't generalize like that from an individual experience. People differ Tom Rinaldo Mar 2013 #6

Regardless of from what to what religion they convert, I think people convert to a religion JDPriestly Mar 2013 #13

It has mellowed out since then treestar Mar 2013 #9

annulments were very hard to get until it was pretty much too late dsc Mar 2013 #10

People still try for the annulment treestar Mar 2013 #12

I'm glad to hear that Catholics now are less intolerant of Protestant JDPriestly Mar 2013 #14