A recent post on a Reformed site by a die hard, sometimes Catholic bashing fellow. This was in response to the question "should adulterers be executed":

"It's an interesting and somewhat complex subject. Take for example older laws in many Catholic countries which don't allow divorce. God hates divorce, but He created man a sexual creature, and sometimes marriages don't work out, so provision for divorce is rather easy in Biblical law. Now, in that case the civil government puts a lid on the revealed way to go about fulfilling those particular needs, so is it fair to execute someone under those circumstances?

I would say that adultery should be penalised, and it is in many states. But at this time in our culture, more emphasis should be placed on bringing society into line morally than to concentrate lopsidedly with the penalty phase."

Comment-Well, God did create sex and all its parts, but...a sexual creature? Does this, then, mean we are free to go with our passions and just say "ooops...sory God, ya made me this way". I think we see the same mentality that drove Protestants to accept contraception and hence, lowered there bars even lower for public and private morality.

Further, if God hates divorce, and he does, then why is this fellow making excuses for divorce? This fellow and others like him make a bid deal out of biblical literacy, but they hence miss the plain text of what Christ, the new and everlasting covenant stated:

"And it hath been said, whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce.  But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, excepting for the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery" (MT  5:31-33)

and

"And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, and saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?  Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, Made them male and female? And he said:  For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.

 Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.  They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorce, and to put away?  He saith to them: Because Moses by reason of the hardness of your heart permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.  And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery". (MT 19:3-10).

He then states:

"But at this time in our culture, more emphasis should be placed on bringing society into line morally"

This after making excuses of "well, schucks, we are sexual beings and all"? After making excuses why the OT apaprently trumps Christs' own words?

Protestantism-amalgamation of heresies, Gnosticims and personal whims, wrapped up in "Bbile-saysisms". A good rebuttal of this twisty mentality:

http://www.scripturecatholic.com/divorce_remarriage.html

Finally,and this is also a head-slapper, a response from another participant:

"Under Kilgore's policy, I would be executed because I married a divorced woman".

Well, depending on the circumstances, ah, yup-you are a adulterer then! But hey, can't help it, no? After all, we are just a material....I mean, sexual creature!!.

*All Bible quotes from DRV