According to Premier Christianity, weddings between men and women were dead because of the secular culture, but now Taylor Swift’s wedding is bringing them back. Because people are puppets who never think for themselves but are simply told what to do by the church or the dreaded secular culture.
And since Christianity always promoted heterosexual marriage, it is logical to assume that people will be hopping to churches and Sunday masses.
Not to mention that Taylor and Kelce’s wedding was SECULAR.
And since Christianity always promoted heterosexual marriage, it is logical to assume that people will be hopping to churches and Sunday masses.
Not to mention that Taylor and Kelce’s wedding was SECULAR.
Quote:Culture told us that marriage is outdated. Taylor Swift’s wedding says otherwise
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding has been celebrated by women across the West as if it were the news of a close friend. Lois McLatchie Miller argues that the fascination reveals a longing for love that our culture has often taught women to minimise – and one that the Church can breathe life back into.
It is difficult to imagine a more powerful reminder that career success and public acclaim cannot satisfy the deepest longings of the human heart.
That should not surprise Christians. The Bible begins not with human achievement but with relationship. “It is not good for the man to be alone” (Genesis 2:18). Marriage is never presented merely as a social convention but as part of God’s good design, ultimately pointing beyond itself to Christ’s covenant love for his Church.
Christians should not accept the modern assumption that marriage and motherhood are somehow lesser aspirations for capable women.
Perhaps that is why Swift’s wedding has resonated so widely. It arrives at a moment when marriage itself has become increasingly out of reach for many young people.
In promoting marriage on a worldwide scale, Taylor has accidentally achieved what the Church have been too shy to do for some time. But the Church has an even more powerful and healing message about marriage – not that it brings personal fulfilment, but that it is an imperfect mirror to the deep, unfailing love that God has for us.
The audience is ready. Millions of millennials want to know what our culture has recommended they postpone, delay or dismiss. Christians have an opportunity to speak into that longing – not by idolising marriage, nor by diminishing singleness, but by recovering a beautiful vision of covenant, commitment and family as gifts from God.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
