(March 13, 2012 at 4:49 pm)Ziploc Surprise Wrote: I was really thinking about the benefits of long term relationships. From what I understand positive long term relationships are good for one's health. Futhermore the ability to make and maintain these relationships is a sign of psychological health and maturity. I used to have some citeable information on this but that was years and years ago. All I can do now without reresearching it is give anecdotal evidence. Personallyh I can't see how anyone can mature well if they don't learn how to get along with people.
As for breeding itself. You need to consider much more than just a pregnancy. That infant must survive to breeding age. In the past this required more than one parent. From what I understand in the distant past it required the efforts of the entire tribe (protection etc.). These days a child can survive to breeding age quite well on the efforts of just one parent.
And which of these has not been abundantly achieved outside of christianity? Fact remains christianity is unnecessary to the execution of marriage, and in the long run deadly to the ultimate purpose of marriage, a fact it doesn't even disguise through its sickening yet infantile eschatology.
