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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
Shamrock: If marriage is a Christian institution, then the government would take its cue from Christianity, right? But people are divorcing and remarrying all the time, which is a religious no-no. The government shouldn't be in the marriage business if it's a Christian institution.
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Well, having never had any first hand experience of marriage I could be wrong here, but when you marry don't you also register with the state in the same way that you would had you just gone to a registry office? So when you get a divorce, it's just this 'civil' side that is divorced? The marriage itself is annulled by the church I think.
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And hasn't marriage been around for a really really long time? How long has Christianity been in the mainstream, a few hundered years? I don't know, it all sounds sort of iffy to me.
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Well, it reached the UK about 1,000 years ago but marriage is mentioned in the bible as far back as Genesis. Other religions and cultures have their own words for it, but according to google, a culture preaching a monogomous relationship is actually in the minority.
But I could be wrong - I just understood that marriage was a religious thing and we've just labelled civil unions as marriage because it's all the same in practice.