Christian Seberino wrote
Let me turn it around....if marriage is really just filing a few legal
papers at the courthouse then why is it such a big deal for people to get
married?
This is something else that the Churches grabbed control of so that they
could have even more control of the people. There were no marriage contracts
in many societies before Christianity. Then too, businesses got involved in
making marriages something that would put the new couple or their parents in
hock for years.
The "Greenwood Marriages" of the early tribes were trial marriages to see if
the couple COULD have children. They generally lasted for a year and a day,
and if no offspring was produced they could try again with someone else. At
that time Children were a necessary part of the family in order to keep food
on the table and a fire in the hearth.
We must remember that the social climate today is much different than
previously. Marriages then were made for far different reasons than now. The
Women generally had little say about it except in the Pagan societies.
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On Tue, March 27, 2007 2:17 pm, William Eade wrote:
What, then, is the reason for people who CANNOT or DO NOT WANT children to
get married.
Let me turn it around....if marriage is really just filing a few legal
papers at the courthouse then why is it such a big deal for people to get
married?
Chris
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