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Anybody Religious?
| Wed, 03-10-2004 - 11:19pm |
Religion was one particular reason that stopped me from taking my emotional affair to any other level. I mean I could micro-analyze my marriage and come up with reasons to justify cheating to my own self but could not justify it to God. I am supposed to “guard my modesty” in relation to my husband and I couldn’t bring myself to break that decree. I and MM belong to different faiths but for him it was the religious reason too that held him back. I and MM could generate heat in excess of couple of hundred degrees ..lol.. but it’s the religion besides our idiosyncratic personalities that wouldn’t let us do it.
I am curious to know how other board members (who consider themselves actively religious) handle the religious aspect that considers adultery a serious sin. Do you feel like a sinner and think that other areas of your life might be getting affected by the adultery act (they say people get punished in this world too besides in the other world)? Do you feel that your prayers work?
PG

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MM and I are: different race (he white, me Asian Mid-Eastern), different religion (he Christian, me Muslim) born oceans apart but still managed to fall in love (or maybe its not love, time will tell).
PG
I personally consider myself a spiritual person, but I am not religious. I belong to no organized religion primarily because I can't fit all my beliefs within any particular system.
As far as how my morality and beliefs fit with having an affair, I believe it to be wrong. My primary belief is that we should all try to be good to others. Having affairs doesn't fit that for me. But I am human after all and I have made mistakes. I don't plan on continuing down that path. I pride myself in learning from my mistakes and I will no longer allow myself to be the person I have been in the past. I'm also my own harshest critic (except for maybe you PG ;) ) and that will help me to learn and move forward as a better person.
Again, thanks for starting this thread. It was very interesting.
CL-Gurlfriend50
Co-CL of My Affair Support Board
PG
:) Hope you are doing well today, omahamm!
CL-Gurlfriend50
Co-CL of My Affair Support Board
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