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How do you define 'marriage'?
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Post by
Squishalot
No hints, no leading in the question. How do you define the term 'marriage'? (Or whatever word is used to describe the equivalent thing in your own language.)
For the non-regulars, if you could provide a background as to your religious alignment (or lack thereof), it'd be good too.
Post by
Monday
I define marriage as a union between two people regarding reproduction and distribution of funds/material possessions.
I would like to say: A man and a woman united under God for time and all eternity, but the world has a way of twisting stuff.
Post by
SirPunky
Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right, and the other is a husband.
Post by
buzz3070
A Union between two people if they are both guys or both girls or a guy and a girl.
Post by
vincistis
My mac dictionary just said: The long term relationship between partners of the same sex...
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148723
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Post by
Hyperspacerebel
A covenant under which a Man and a Woman may strive for their common good and for the procreation and education of children.
Post by
Cambo
A man and a woman who commit themselves together under some kind of common law, until they die. Because nobody can be sure that you can be adulterous as a corpse.
Post by
Ashelia
A civil union between two people that's romantic.
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204878
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Post by
Orangutan
A bwessed awwangement. A dweam, wiffin a dweam!
Post by
Hyperspacerebel
A bwessed awwangement. A dweam, wiffin a dweam!
Have you the wing?
Post by
Asylu
My religious background is a wonderful mix of Catholicism, Baptist with a smidgen of Wicca in there. As I have grown older I have found my self leaning towards Buddhism and true paganism.
And on topic, marriage is where to 2 (or more dependent of culture/preference/state and/or national laws) people agree to share life insurance, tax brackets, vehicles, domiciles and responsibility for any resulting offspring that may occur.
Is it a sacred bond? Only if the couple believe it to be and both treat it so.
Can it be solely defined as between a man and a woman? No, simply because it is a social contract and anyone can take part in such. Until a big scary old dude falls from the sky and tells me otherwise I'll continue to fell that way
Post by
Orranis
And on topic, marriage is where to 2 (or more dependent of culture/preference/state and/or national laws) people agree to share life insurance, tax brackets, vehicles, domiciles and responsibility for any resulting offspring that may occur.
Is it a sacred bond? Only if the couple believe it to be and both treat it so.
Can it be solely defined as between a man and a woman? No, simply because it is a social contract and anyone can take part in such. Until a big scary old dude falls from the sky and tells me otherwise I'll continue to fell that way
Wow, I'm surprised as to how close someone else's was to mine.
Post by
blademeld
Presbyterian Christian.
Marriage is a contract that benefits a couple (or more under some jurisdictions) under the law of their government.
Marriage hasn't been sacred in a religious context for a while now. Christians don't have a ground to complain on, if they wanted to complain, they should have stopped it when atheists got married and they should act like Christians.
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204878
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Post by
wolfeyoung
I feel that marriage is a public symbol of love and commitment between partners; it is also a status symbol ("Oh, my husband is a doctor" "My wife is model" type thing).
However, I'd also like to say that the reasons that men marry versus women, to me, are different, so a single definition of marriage seems to tell only half the story.
Post by
blademeld
Well, not according to religion, you know, religion defining God to have created the world, and religion to have existed from day one.
But that's going into religion versus atheism debate, and that's derailing the thread, as long as you know what I'm talking about, and I know what you're talking about, it's good.
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204878
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Post by
Hyperspacerebel
Well, not according to religion, you know, religion defining God to have created the world, and religion to have existed from day one.
But that's going into religion versus atheism debate, and that's derailing the thread, as long as you know what I'm talking about, and I know what you're talking about, it's good.
Even if religion existed from day #1, Christianity didn't.
The argument isn't whether Christians were getting married before Atheists. That's silly. The belief is that God created the covenant of marriage when he first created man, and it's that understanding of marriage that Christianity embraces as its own.
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