Reminder MY GD Friends: No church as EVER performed a marriage. NOT EVER.

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7. Seems pretty in line with thousands of years of pre-christian civil marriages as well.

The entire world doesn't revolve around the Judeo-Christian social system. And thank goodness too. But if you'd like to uphold their belief system do so into and for yourself. You'll want to start by:

Never cutting your hair or shaving
Not eating shellfish
Not masturbating
Not coming into contact with women during their "impure time"
Not allowing women, literally, a voice in the church
No sex before marriage
No tattoos
No pork
No work of any kind on Sundays
No cursing


And so on.

But don't worry, you'll be allowed to own several slaves, kill heathens and collect their foreskin for your king, and so on.

And if you do that, then you can, in your own life, determine how you want to define marriage in your mind. But mind you, it doesn't give you the right to tell others how to live their lives. Or, for that matter, tell others a cock and bull story about how Christianity owns marriage.

It doesn't.

Ask a Native American. Ask anyone of an Eastern culture. Ask atheists if they are able to get married. Look to ancient Egypt.

And even putting all of that aside, look to your liberal Christian friends. Are they not able to marry? Do they not consider their marriages to be part of a proud liberal marriage tradition?

Marriage is not a conservative idea. It's just one they've used for a long time as a tool to subjugate women. But they didn't invent marriage. Neither did Christians in general. Or any religious group. And it will outlast them all.