(October 24, 2013 at 6:05 am)Tonus Wrote: I think the concept of a social commitment can be practical, and there do exist species of animals that mate for life. Perhaps where religion has gone off the rails is not in codifying the social commitment, but in demanding that it be permanent. Thus you get many people who stay in broken or unhappy marriages that should probably have gone their separate ways.
Even in the animal world, among animals that "mate for life," there is a divorce rate. In that respect, I agree that the unhealthy aspect of human marriage is the social pressure to stay together forever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Q7b-vHY3Q
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
