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Originally Posted by InfiniteNow
Either way, god plays about as much of a role in the event as the tooth fairy or easter bunny (or Thor, or Zeus, or Apollo, or any of the other thousands of figures laying dead in the graveyard of human mythology), but it's still a marriage all the same.  |
Depends on how one identifies with God.
Is (Agape) Love lying dead in the graveyard of human mythology?
Is Life (as we know it) lying dead in the graveyard of human mythology?
God is said to be that which joins the marriage / relationship in (Holy) union, that no human can put asunder. In my worldview that happens (long) before the ceremonial aspect that humans construct around marriage. And it occurs (long) after the divorce / separation proceedings that humans imagine as a parting of ways.
If you believe the union is established by a Cause that goes by another name, I am likely to honor that substitute concept. I really am. If you perchance you believe no such union truly exists, then perhaps we could discuss further (in another thread?).
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When considering marriages or partnerships, biology is rather irrelevant, despite your suggestion above to the contrary. As you well know, we don't require that two opposite sex partners be reproductively viable before allowing them to marry. We don't disallow infertile people from marrying, or people who simply have no plans to ever have children. Or, look at the elderly... people in their 70s or 80s... They're allowed to marry without question, despite the impossibility of offspring conception from their pairing.
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I very much agree with this.
