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Atheists & Agnostics

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trotsky

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Thu Oct 22, 2015, 11:03 AM Oct 2015

I'm confused. I thought it was supposed to be the New Atheists who are bigoted against Muslims. [View all]

http://www.ibtimes.com/vatican-synod-2015-catholic-women-shouldnt-marry-muslims-priest-argues-2152303

An Egyptian priest doesn't think marriages between Christian women and Muslim men is a good idea, and he wants Roman Catholic leaders to discourage it. During the Synod of Bishops on the family, the priest said that such marriages cause a serious crisis for the married couples and their children, according to the Catholic Herald.

Garas Boulos Garas Bishay, a priest at the Mary Queen of Peace Parish in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh, said he is profoundly concerned when Russian and European women marry Muslim men, arguing that the allowance of polygamy in Islam can negatively impact the children they raise. He asked church leaders what they could do to help families with Muslim husbands and Christian wives, in which he argued the wives are sometimes deceived and abused. He also said that the children of these families are often disoriented.
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