Why Do People Get Married?

Equating a religious baptism to a secular marriage seems like quite a stretch to me.

 

Hm, I thought it was a perfect comparison.

 

Cherea, that's a very good point.

But I see where egg is going. Having a secular wedding is for the party and tax benefits.

 

So is your makebelieve 'god'.

 

its a security issue. so that they'll have always someone around willing to share affection, and or sex, and or live off of them.

hopefully its mutual and they're willing to try to be each other's happily ever after.

too often its based on fantasy expectations and assumptions and the ever after isn't always happily, or ever after.

 

To have someone pay the bills, do the dirty laundery, and wipe their ass and feed them soup when their old and useless.

 

You must mean some of His followers? God is not bothering you with marriage (I suspect)

 

Why, has he got not luck in that department as well?

 

No I mean god.
I hate religion, but not the people who have religion. Just like I hate cancer, but not the people who have cancer.

 

Is that like "I hate the sin, not the sinner"

 

Cancer isn't a sin, it's a disease. As is religion.

 

I disagree.

 

Ofcouse you do, you are infected with that nonsense.

 

So: religion = God?

 

No, but because you are infected with lice

 

Buddhists tend to disagree.

 

Oh hi, Mr. Pretentious comes here to make an attempt at humor to make himself look so uberfabulantastic cool.

Keep it up, champion. :2thumbsup:

 

We're all pretentious here, in a way. Especially you.

 

My wedding or my marriage has nothing to do with god or religion. When I got married I was making a commitment to my husband. To tell him that he was the one I choose to spend my days with. It was my way of "shouting it from the rooftops" so to speak. To include everyone important in our lives on a day that I expressed how much I love him. We cut any talk of god out of our ceremony. I made damn sure of that. We had our own vows so we meant exactly what we said. Not what someone told us to say. It was between us and our friends and family were our witnesses. Not god. If I would have seen it as a religious ceremony or thought I was just doing it for god I would have never gotten married. God plays no role in my life, why would he play a role in my wedding.