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lestatdark said:
sapphi_snake said:
lestatdark said:

I always find it delightfully funny how christians use the concept of marriage so freely as a binding contract that their own religion invented. Nevermind that marriage itself is a concept that came from the ancient celtic tribes in Europe, with ceremonies such as the hand-fasting and marriage itself.

Anyway having said that, I believe in the concept that everyone is free to choose what to do with his/her own body. I'm not going to discuss the christian theology of sin and vice, because that'll end up in an endless chain of comments from rebuttals from my Wiccan point of view. Everyone's entitled to their own feelings regarding this matter, just as long as they don't try to shove them down everyone else's throat.

Live and let live, without judging one another.

I'm quite sure that the concept of marriage is much older than that, considering that it's practiced by virtually all cultures.

To be really honest, you're completely right. Marriage itself, as a concept, has it's roots on the nomad tribes of the early humans circa 10.000 AD, but it's "modern" roots are similar to those practiced by the celtic tribes of ancient Europe

Yes, specific practices in the West probably come from there. The important thing though is that the concept itself is extremely old, so old that it's impossible to know when exactly it originated. And it's most certainly much older than any religion today (and possibly predates the concept of religion as a whole).



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