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06-16-2010 , 10:18 PM

MindOnMind

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Did religion create marriage? Probably not but was marriage common before religion (old testament)?

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06-16-2010 , 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by MindOnMind

Did religion create marriage? Probably not but was marriage common before religion (old testament)?

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06-16-2010 , 10:25 PM

Stu Pidasso

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Imagine if you lived in the year 100,000 bc. Imagine what life would be like. Would your life be easier as a swinging bachelor or with a wife?

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06-16-2010 , 10:32 PM

Gunth0807

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swinging bachelor

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06-16-2010 , 10:38 PM

EvilSteve

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Conservapedia's article on marriage nailed it in the first sentence.

"Marriage is the divinely ordained union between one man and one woman."

Divinely ordained. Secular it is not. Oh, you want further proof?

"The first marriage occurred nearly 6,000 years ago in the Garden of Eden, in the area of the world that we now know as the Middle East. The first couple was Adam and Eve."

Master of ceremonies? That'd be God.

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06-16-2010 , 11:54 PM

MindOnMind

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swinging bachelor ofc, or like 100 girlfriends aka head of the tribe.

anyway so did religion create it or not?

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06-17-2010 , 01:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Stu Pidasso

Imagine if you lived in the year 100,000 bc. Imagine what life would be like. Would your life be easier as a swinging bachelor or with a wife?

Religion didn't get rid of swinging until late in the game (at least for men).

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06-17-2010 , 01:06 AM

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Originally Posted by MindOnMind

swinging bachelor ofc, or like 100 girlfriends aka head of the tribe.

anyway so did religion create it or not?

It depends how you define marriage. If it can mean one guy kicked the crap out of the other guys and took all the women as his wife's, then no probably not.

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06-17-2010 , 05:25 AM

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"Marriage is the divinely ordained union between one man and one woman."

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Originally Posted by Moses on behalf of God

If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love, 16 when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love. 17 He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father's strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.

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06-17-2010 , 06:41 AM

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I think Ceaser did lol

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06-17-2010 , 09:10 AM

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Snip.

Context!

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06-19-2010 , 09:19 AM

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Context!

True dat. Moses probably just made it up.

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06-20-2010 , 02:58 AM

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Conservapedia isn't really the kind of source you can use to prove a point, especially to atheists (or anyone with an ounce of logic and/or the ability to reason).

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06-20-2010 , 09:13 AM

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Conservapedia isn't really the kind of source you can use to prove a point, especially to atheists (or anyone with an ounce of logic and/or the ability to reason).

I’m pretty darn sure he was kidding.

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06-20-2010 , 11:02 AM

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I don't think that marrieage is created by religion. It's natural.

There are some kind of animals that can stay together as a couple through their life (such as penguin, or wild duck).

Or you can see a strong and powerfull male lion will keep all the female lions in a flock as his own.

And so do the human being.

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06-20-2010 , 11:35 AM

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I’m pretty darn sure he was kidding.

Yes, when I cite conservapedia as an authority (or answersingenesis), I'm posting from under a bridge.

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