Christian Fundamentalists
Christian fundamentalists condemn divorce because marriage is a sacred covenant ordained by God, and hence cannot be separated by humans. Wives must submit to their husbands, and husbands must love their wives. Any disagreement or conflict in the marriage must be resolved.
The only biblical ground for divorce is adultery and the abandonment of a believing spouse by an unbelieving one. Not many people are aware that living with a toxic spouse is more harmful than living with a cheating spouse. Why is it so?
Not all cheating spouses are toxic. They only wish to separate or divorce to move forward and find happiness with the right person. This is part of life. However, the common traits of toxic people are abusing power, controlling, manipulating, and being very possessive.
They do not have empathy or a common sense of fairness/truth. They enjoy seeing others suffer as a result of their control. They treat their target as property and not a human.
Without the awareness of how dangerous they can be, the toxic Christian fundamentalists abuse the teaching of the bible that imposes on their targets (predominantly wives) to be submissive and trapped in the poisonous relationships forever.
In public, those manipulative, toxic Christians would twist the stories to gain more support against their spouses. At home, they threaten, intimidate, humiliate, and gaslight their partner to believe that there is no way out.
The relationship in a toxic family is not an equal partnership as described in the bible. It is similar to a master and his slave. The victim must comply with the perpetrator’s demand; otherwise, they will face punishment. They do not have freedom or choice. They need to seek constant permission.
When the relationship is not equal, with the presence of constant mental and possible physical torment, it is by default has breached the teaching of the bible. Hence, divorce is not judged but should be encouraged.
