Thread: Marriage?
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Old 02-15-2004, 11:36 PM   #18
Yorick
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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
How are they united? That's a very difficult question... It depends on peoples' religious beliefs. Strictly speaking, it's a union recognized by a 'higher power' be it a deity or the government. It normally involves some sort of ceremony.
And I won't even touch 'convenient' marriages... Those were marriage in a legal, technical, on-paper sense... If there is no love, can it truly be marriage? I am unsure.
Under your belief in a "higher power" if that power is a government, then it would be a marriage. How do you measure love? How can a government tell if a person loves another person?

So, depending on YOUR religious beliefs how do you see the couple as being united?
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