Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis

[Bucky Ball]

As a minor aside, I'm not sure where this notion that the concept of romantic love didn't exist -at any point- in human history comes from.  It has been more or less emphasized by this or that society at one point in time or another - but so far as we can tell humans have been fully modern for at least 50k years..and the concept of romantic love does, in fact, present itself from the very earliest examples of written myth, legend, and history, and very particularly the conflict between that human behavior and social structures that did not grant it legitimacy.  You'll find it in magic book, as well, ofc.  

That's a trope that's been with us forever.

Possibly, but not as the basis for marriage.
The idea that the concepts that modern humans, or even human in just 2019 have, have been shared by all humans for the last 50,000 years is false. Cultures change, and it changes radially over time.
Being physically "modern" in no way mean humans have been conceptually "modern" for all that time. For example, tribal societies did not have anything close to the concept of individualism we have today, and the historical events that led to the way the concept exists today is a huge study topic in human cultural history. The concept in the West of "chivalry" and the knightly (romantic courtly love) hero, has NOT existed for even a fraction of human history.

There are those who say romantic love as we think of it today did not exist until quite recently.
https://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/bar...rn-society