I've heard homosexuality is "against nature" (though bonobo chimpanzees naturally engage in homosexual activity on a regular basis).
I've just heard polygamy is "against nature" (though there are many species where one male mates with many females, such as lions).
It just occurred to me, which animal actually conducts a marriage ceremony?
I can think of none other than humans.
Since no other species marries, wouldn't that mean marriage is "against nature"?
Keep in mind I am not talking about cohabitation (aka "living in sin"). There are many species that mate for life (tho' not the majority of species).
But there isn't one species that conducts a marriage.
Thus my question: is marriage "against nature"?
2007-06-10 03:00:59 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well yeah when you put it like that we seem to be the only creatures who do it. Then again, humans and dolphins are the only creatures in the world who have sex for pleasure, so we're kind of unique in some other senses too (apart from the dolphins but you get the general idea)
2007-06-10 03:06:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although they do not go to a religious leader or a government official and get documentation, there are several spices of animal that go through a mating ritual and then stay with there chosen mate for the rest of there life.
Then of course humans are animals and have a nature all there own. To say something is against nature you first have to find out what the nature of the particular creature is. Its natural and in the nature of several spiders to eat their mate after sex and in some cases during sex. It would still be against nature if humans where to do the same thing. Every creature every animal has its own nature. You can not look at one or even a group and say they do it so its natural for us to do it to, or they don't do it so it's unnatural for us to do it.
Man is so diverse I'm not sure if we have only one nature.
But even in its diversity, marriage is found to exist. So I would have to disagree with you for man marriage is a natural thing.
2007-06-10 10:23:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there are several other animals such as elephants that keep their mate for their whole life. We have marriage, because its a way to prove our love, and ensure that we are going go be with someone for the rest of our lives. I think that its divorce that goes against nature.
2007-06-10 10:35:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you believe that marriage...whether or not the marriage between a man and a woman or two women or two men...is "against nature"? Isn't "nature" a bit busy at the moment, no doubt too busy to involve herself with the amorous affairs of we puling human creatures. Ditto the God of the universe. If I were God and I had on my plate the trillions of galaxies and, in each galaxy, trillions of stars, I really doubt that I would care one whit that Joe and Kevin love each other or that every teenage boy was putting a hand on himself or that two girls in Kansas were kissing each other. The fact is that "nothing," absolutely nothing, is "against" nature. It is a notion born of primitive religious belief, and it has zip to do with reality. At this very moment, in Africa, a lion is eating a sweet little baby gnu and another lion is off all alone dying of old age or disease--are they "against" nature?
2007-06-10 10:56:09 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans have not just an animal nature but a human nature(apart from the monogamous species of animals). Marriage with its promise of permanant care,love and companionship and commitment to sharing the rearing of children developes our humaneness and is the height of the best of our human nature.
2007-06-10 10:08:07 · answer #5 · answered by James O 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are many animals that "mate for life". The ? you should be asking is what are the advantages?
Human children need a set of parents to increase the chances of surviving and thriving. Perhaps you should study the biology of human behavior.
2007-06-10 10:06:31 · answer #6 · answered by Edward F 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You're also not going to find democracy or economic structure in another species.
Man is the higher intelligence. We have the ability to discern what is best for us, ie: What religion we choose, how we regulate our society and government, having financial goals.....
We just then have trouble implementing it...which is ....uniquely.....human.....
2007-06-10 10:47:26 · answer #7 · answered by Puresnow 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lots of things are "against nature", including clothes, cooked food, shaving, public transit, funerals and praying.
Oddly homosexuality is one of the few "unnatural" things that bothers Christians, even though as you pointed out homosexuality is in fact common in nature.
2007-06-10 10:06:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Right?
Aren't prosthetics, pacemakers, and chemotherapy "against nature", too? What about wheelchairs and eye glasses? Antidepressants? Lipitor? Viagra? Ha!
2007-06-10 10:05:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
GOD MADE EACH NATURE AND IT IS HIM TO DETERMINE WHat is right and therefore natural for each type of being. Fish breathing water seems against nature for those who live in air,
2007-06-10 10:16:27 · answer #10 · answered by peaceisfromgod 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋