Hello. I am investigating how religion affects on people's perception of marriage for my school assignment. Could you please write your view on marriage in one or two sentence and tell me which religion you belong to? (e.g. Marriage for me is more like a duty...etc)
I especially want feedbacks from Christians, Muslims and Buddhists. Thank you for taking your time.
2007-09-30 21:40:00 · 7 answers · asked by mari_papuan 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Marriage is a choice. It's a lot of work and definitely worth it but a lot of work that you can't take lightly. Marriage should be a union of two best friends. Ideally, you should have the same or similar views in order to understand each other. You will have trials and difficulties but it is a partnership you have to work at daily. I'm Catholic.
2007-09-30 21:46:12 · answer #1 · answered by CUrias 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marriage is a LEGAL institution. Whether or not it's something more than that, is up to the married couple.
There are couples who have been married in a church, couples who were married by a Justice of the Peace, couples who were married by an Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas, couples who threw a Star Wars wedding, couples who only got married so that they could grant a person citizenship, married couples who want kids, married couples who don't want kids, married couples who have a sexually open relationship, married couples who are monogamous, some who live together, some who don't live together, etc. etc.
And the ONLY thing they ALL have in common is that they all paid a small fee to city hall, and gave them a piece of paperwork with 4 signatures: the bride, the groom, the person performing the legal wedding ceremony, and a witness. The government couldn't care less, nor shouldn't, about all the other details when it comes down to couple jointly filing a tax form.
So needless to say, no single religion has had a monopoly on religion, and no religion should get to define the extra details of marriage for everybody else.
2007-09-30 22:03:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marriage is a wonderful thing, and SHOULD be a lifetime commitment between two people who love each other. It takes a lot of work...and a lot of the four C's:
1. Commitment.
2. Compassion.
3. Communication.
4. Compromise.
I'm a Christian.
2007-09-30 21:53:21 · answer #3 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think marriage is a nice idea, but sadly nowadays so many people, of all different beliefs or lack of, don't put in the required effort to make it work, so it seems a bit pointless because it just causes people to hurt. I think though if you make the promise you shouldn't enter into it likely and you should definitely stick to the promises you make. (I'm not against divorce when it's necessary, but I wish people wouldn't cheat and stuff because it is so mean and wrong.) Oh yeah, and I'm atheist.
2007-09-30 22:17:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am pagan but marriage is a promise. I met my husband and new we were destined. We new each other nine days before we married and that was nine years ago. Most pagans/wiccans handfast but it usually is permanent. I chose my husband as my lifemate, to be together for ever not just until something better comes along.
2007-09-30 23:17:11 · answer #5 · answered by nightshadetn 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian and i firmly believe that marriage is a sacred union of two people which needs God's blessing and guidance in order to succeed.
2007-09-30 21:45:30 · answer #6 · answered by piglet 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
20+ years in the past it became assembly with the deacon and getting the Catholic version of issues-various toddlers and convey them up Catholic. Then we had to take the examination. Very long, various repetitive questions yet meant to weed out immaturity and abuse, etc. We stored getting scolded via fact we giggled interior the direction of the finished ingredient and whilst we went over the solutions my then-fiance and the deacon have been given right into a shouting experience over semantics and that they married us besides. as long as your meant grants to help make toddlers and to enhance them Catholic you will desire to have no issues. We outright lied via fact we in no way meant to have toddlers yet I determine i bypass to burn for many of alternative issues that did no longer count. they actually in basic terms have the prefer to make valuable that one, he's not abusive or controlling and you're mature adequate to be married and a pair of, which you will make extra Catholics. If a parish priest provides grief, try a monastery. they sometimes have extra experience and much less dogma. you will desire to be positive, and congratulations. To different answerers: they are able to't supply up them from getting married, yet they are able to refuse to marry them interior the Catholic church.
2016-12-28 08:33:31 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋