RE: The need to believe?
July 14, 2017 at 10:35 am
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2017 at 10:37 am by *Deidre*.)
(July 14, 2017 at 10:27 am)Astonished Wrote:(July 14, 2017 at 8:00 am)*Deidre* Wrote: I wonder if that really happened...if our cavemen ancestors really ''bonked'' women over the head, dragged them back to their caves, and had their way with them. Hmmm.
I'm using hyperbole as a means of mocking caricature because that's the appropriate level of thought the theistic side has about this.
Oh, I know, but I still wonder that.
(July 14, 2017 at 10:18 am)Khemikal Wrote: Marriage was an issue of paternity and property inheritance. The christian apparatus concerned itself only with the marriages of kings..there was no need for serfs to be married - they owned nothing, and their children were simply another form of livestock to be allocated for farm labor..not entirely unlike the oxen that pulled their moldboards. Marriage itself was not officially recognized as a sacrament until @1200AD.
Ah yes, that must have been another time when God spoke only to a particular Pope to make yet another rule in the Church.
