Usually churches stick together too. Remember that one story of the pastor that was a child molester a while or so ago? The whole church stuck by him until the end because they BELIEVED in him. Turns out he was guilty though.

My point? If they’re not believing in the pastor of the church — the leader of the church — or sticking by the man, then something right there tells me something big time is wrong.

What does someone supposedly molesting their daughter have to do with half the congregation leaving a church? Unless those people saw something else going on that they didn’t like…

I think this is a great point! If people left, they had to have had a reason. If I was the reason, then I was in jail at the time and no threat to anyone (if I was ever a threat). So why did they leave? According to some that I have talked to, they left because they felt that the pastor was a manipulator and that the church was heading toward behaving like a cult. My incarceration may have caused people to re-evaluate why they were there, but ultimately they left for other reasons.

Thou shall not bear false witness, right?

There is also nothing in the Bible that commands believers to NOT be married to unbelievers as far as I know. So doing what she is … there is no purpose for it.

She should have used this as an opportunity to show her kids that the world is a big place, and there is going to be unbelievers out there as well, and you can still be close to them too. If her parents weren’t Christian, would she cut them off?

Your parents apparently aren’t Christian. Did you cut them off? Did you not let your kids around them? Or did you and tell your kids that even though they don’t believe in Christ it’s okay to love them anyway?

With this in mind, my wife is behaving as any mother that desires to protect her children. In fact, from her perspective, she is willing to suffer now, in this life, that she and her children will have the prospect of a glorious afterlife.

If you believed, with all your heart, that heaven was real, that Christ was the only way and that this way was achieved through absolute faith, then would you not do all you could to give your own children a chance to have this faith? Would you not oppose any that would try to steal that chance away?

For those of us that do not believe like this, then we see her actions as irrational and crazy, even harmful to the children. But, from her perspective, she is a warrior doing all she can to guarantee a chance for the eternal survival of her children.

There are many within the fundamental circles in which I traveled that are most likely looking upon my wife as a hero of the faith.

They are totally going against their own religion by doing this. So much so that your wife might as well divorce you since she isn’t following her own religion to begin with.

Here’s hoping they see your comment about the kids on this blog and wake up.

Even if I am found not guilty by the court, I still have to go through a battle with Social Services. As it is right now, they will only allow me supervised visits with my kids and they have not even set up the first one yet. I have talked to them and they keep telling me things like, “next week” and “it takes time”.