RE: "Jesus would rather kill, not marry, gay people" - Franklin Graham
July 17, 2018 at 12:03 pm
(July 17, 2018 at 10:50 am)SteveII Wrote: ...and has been well defined for more the 10,000 years.
This is patently false.
Many parts of China have had what is known as "walking marriages", where women have several "husbands" that visit her.
Many tribes in South America have communal marriages, where the entire tribe forms a marriage, and procreates as a group, and shares in raising children.
28 societies in the Himalayas have polyandrous marriages, as do others in India.
Sorry to inform you, but monogamy did not become the norm in the Western world until between the 6th and 9th centuries, CE.
Quote:And it has been one of the most important parts of the human experience since the beginning of humans.
No, it has not. At least, not in the way you falsely believe.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
