RE: Why I'm Still a Christian
March 1, 2015 at 2:45 pm
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2015 at 4:07 pm by Mudhammam.)
(March 1, 2015 at 1:33 pm)Lek Wrote: To a christian, marriage isn't making a legal contract, but rather committing ourselves to each other, which needs no sanctioning from a civil authority.*Bullshit buzzer, bullshit buzzer, reet reet*
The biblical conception of marriage is about one thing and one thing only: childbirth.
Additionally, marriage in Hebrew culture, sanctioned by your Three Gods Who Are One Person and Three Persons Who Are One God Because Both Nonsensical Statements Amount To The Same Thing, involved the selling and trading of daughters between fathers to establish property contracts and other treaties.
The idea of marriage as a pubic declaration of love sprung from European Romanticism and evolved into what it is today so that any two adults can decide to share their lives with one another, including a family, and the government clearly has an interest that this union is preserved.
Marriage changes. Christians in history emulate societal norms, just like the progressive ones do now and the rest will eventually less in a few more centuries they wish to end up looking like our current Muslim nations.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza