2007-02-25 09:27:44 · 17 answers · asked by lorrnae 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am not tring to offend anyone. I know you don't need a church to get married and you can get a civil marriage.
I just wanted to know how do athiests celebrate their marrage/ conduct a ceremony?
2007-02-25 09:53:17 · update #1
They probably have a wedding conducted by a judge or get married at City Hall. The funeral will be like a wake with friends and family mourning and remembering the person. Then, they take them to the cemetery.
2007-02-25 09:52:36 · answer #1 · answered by cynical 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Judges can marry. There are secular people who have the right to marry as well. You don't need a church to marry. As for funerals, you don't need a church or a minister to have a wake, either. The old Irish wake was simply a party to remember the dear departed with drinks, song and tales. Of course, the Irish then had a church funeral after the wake.
2007-02-25 17:45:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is an entire world that exists beyond the walls of the church. It is the "Civil" world. In the Civil world, marriages are performed and memorial services are held without clergy or religion.
2007-02-25 17:55:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got married by a local Justice of the Peace.
As for a funeral. I don't care what my family does. It's not like I'll know what's going on.
I do like the party idea, though.
2007-02-25 17:48:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can get married without any religious ceremony. Marriage is a legal construct, not a religious one. Same for funerals, there needs to be no religious ceremony to a funeral, it is definitely not required.
2007-02-25 17:39:34 · answer #5 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They get married in homes, churches, parks, etc - just like anyone else.
Funerals for Atheists are often more of a celebration of their lives.
2007-02-25 17:35:34 · answer #6 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, as for me, as far as marriage goes, I haven't really thought about it much, since I am a transsexual and the government who's majority still believes in this imaginary friend named "God" thinks that it's "not the way God intended" to allow 2 people of the same sex to marry, because it apparently says so in this big fictional fairy tale of a book called the "Bible". So, until THAT changes, I haven't really given much thought to marriage.
As far as funerals, I plan to donate my body to science, therefore not really having a funeral.
2007-02-25 17:34:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am an atheist, and we got married by a friend of the family who happens to be a family court judge. No god required, just the power vested by the state and county of New York.
2007-02-25 17:38:44 · answer #8 · answered by CC 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the individual. There's not a set "atheist wedding" or funeral service, so it's up to each of us to decide how these ceremonies will take place.
2007-02-25 17:32:56 · answer #9 · answered by N 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends. Some go to church because it is "traditional". Some go to a registry office, and you can have "humanist" funerals.
2007-02-25 17:31:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋