You summed up a lot of my feelings perfectly. I have always wondered about those verses in the Bible that only allow divorce for reasons of infidelity, when clearly extreme physical abuse would be an even clearer reason for separation. I personally think that people can heal from an affair, but extreme physical abuse has got to be stopped using extreme measures. The thought that a woman (or man) would then be stuck the rest of their life without being able to remarry, or if they did and ML they would be condemmed is just hard for me to swallow. Maybe someone can point me to verses in the Bible that can be interpreted to show that abuse is Biblical grounds for divorce.
Then my next question is where is the cut-off. At what level does abuse qualify for divorce. Some people could argue that emotional abuse can be worse than physical abuse. So at what level is it enough emotional abuse for divorce, Biblically (if it is the case that abuse is a valid reason).
I've never been able to find a clear answer to this in talking to fellow Christians.
Great story about opposition to Nazism and questions of morality it engendered.
"Recollect me darlin, raise me to your lips, two undernourished egos, four rotating hips"
