Unequally yoked |
| My
better half (of Jewish origin)
had herself baptized recently. Since quite some time, we are
topologically separated from each other by about 10.000 miles. I
noticed a change in her behavior two or three years ago. At the phone,
she added more and more hymns and liturgic chants on Jesus, God and Virgin Mary
to our usual conversation. During the last few weeks she intensified
this habit, as if I would need it as a special treatment. Maybe she
feels obliged to exorcise some bad demon out of me. |
| During our conversation today, I learned a new phrase (1):
"We are unequally yoked", she said. As I found out on the internet,
this is a rarely used, but still quite common expression (google
returned 47.000 hits), predominantly indicating partners who appear
rather unfitting for each other. Nevertheless, we draw our wagon since
almost 20 years in these 'unequal yokes'. Maybe I shouldn't have
confronted her with the latest twist of my theory on 'higher
dimensions' (2). |
| Some
wagons need to be carried by unusual means. At least, we keep on
discussing. Neither of us spares the other by concealing the truth (at
least to my impression). While I keep on musing about 'higher cosmic
feelings', she continues to spoil me with clerical harmonies. But
closer inspection of the very phrase gives rise to a suspicion.
Apparently she found this wording in the Bible. In his 2nd Epistle to
the Corinthians, Paul the Apostle writes (6:14): |
| Be ye not unequally yoked
together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with
unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? (King James Version) |
| Isn't
she going a bit far by raising this citation against me? I asked
her to read this text as usual. She thankfully corrected 3 typing errors and 3 in style. She denies to adore the mother of Jesus
(although she repeatedly recited the 'Hail Mary' to me, even in Latin).
She didn't answer the question heading this paragraph. Maybe she needs some time to
think it over. At least she should acknowledge that we are living in
secular times, with the freedom to chose our religion ourselves. |
| Religion is like a private inner home. Everyone is free to find his/her own way of thinking about the what- and how- and whereabouts of the world. We should not derespect others because of their way of thinking and living. We should concede that we can err like others can err. Admitting our failures and inconsistancies stands at the beginning of each christian service.This practice is not meant to breed guilt, but to establish absolute honesty before God, clearing the way for grace, renewal, and genuine community (© google KI). |
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| /\ (1) The internet as a giant text corpus (MLB 17-19) /\ (2) Cosmic Feelings? (MLB 7-8/26) |