If you don't believe in God, what is the point of getting married? you can still be happy without being married, can't you?
whats your view on marriage?
2007-07-09 10:59:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
are you trying to get us to live in sin ?
cool
actually marriage is a legal document , nothing at all to do with religion
it is a bond between a could who are in love and wish to make this a commitment
but I agree
we can still be happy without being married
2007-07-09 11:05:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Legalities. Who gets your stuff when you die? Who gets to decide what to do with you if you're in the hospital and can give consent for surgery?
There are two parts to marriage, the civil part and the religious part.
I think that anyone over the age of consent who is capable of giving informed consent should be able to marry whomever they choose and enjoy the same civil rights as anyone else. There should be no law that deprives anyone of the same civil benefits of legal marriage due to discrimination. In addition, no religious officiant should have the power to sign a legal marital document just because that person is in a religion.
I also think that no church should be forced to conduct religious marriages to people that they prefer to persecute for whatever discriminatory reasons they choose to believe are "true".
Separation of Church and State means that the state can't force the church to believe things, either.
2007-07-09 11:15:38 · answer #2 · answered by Muffie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God ordained marriage, but you certainly don't have to believe in God to be married, as marriage is a civil matter.
I do say, however, that if one doesn't believe, there is absolutely no good reason to get married in church. Why seek a blessing from One you reject?
2007-07-09 11:13:50 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, how mean-spirited.
People get married because they want to express a desire to be with each other for life, to share benefits, to share property, to make sure a child has designated legal guardians, and for love. None of this *has* to involve a God of any kind, not even the Christian God.
I say this as a Pagan married to an atheist.
2007-07-09 11:05:32 · answer #4 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Marriage is a wonderful institution and the leading cause of divorce.
You don't have to believe in G-d to be married, but in the laws of man you can only attain certain things if you are married as a couple.
2007-07-09 11:03:08 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Marriage isn't a religious ceremony unless you make it one. For the non-religious, it's a legal one, a contract of sorts that allows the couple certain things that the government only gives to married couples, such as joint custody of property and any children.
And many people who are not religious still want to make a public commitment to the one they love and celebrate with family and friends afterwards. That's what weddings are for.
2007-07-09 11:07:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My wife and I are happy to be married to each other these 15 years. It is great for our 11 year old daughter that we are married as well. Neither of us believes in anything supernatural. What does believing in gods have to do with marraige????
2007-07-09 11:04:00 · answer #7 · answered by Dendronbat Crocoduck 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can, but marriage isn't about god, it's about devotion to another individual. The two are mutually exclusive. Also, being married in my society allows my wife legal benefits that she wouldn't get if we weren't married.
2007-07-09 11:03:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
show which you will make some thing out of your existence besides. With words like: babstized, tryed, belive, thires, eles, beliving, and niecly, the 1st element you need to do is flow back and end your junior intense college edumacation. which will tutor them and their dippy god, huh?
2016-10-20 11:23:34 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because you dont have to believe in god to be married theres other forms of marriage too but i find for me its the promises the oath and love and well to have someone else to blame when everything goes to sh it
2007-07-09 11:05:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋