No..certainly not....just disagreeing...does not mean that your comments do not cause I to think very hard...I want to ask someone who studies THIS SHIT IN PARTICULAR...he is asleep right now...I'll call him at the proper hour, to request the super good starting point for some searching on the subject....I'm working on the noises today..or, I'ld dig the research out myself, from the stone age, to today...expect it to be forthcoming...to light the truth of the matter...I want to get to the bottom of this semantic quagmire...
SEE...what you describe as marriage, & what I describe as marriage, are super different...
I am certain that Marriage is a matter of the Mind, Body, & Soul...of at least two peoples...if one does not believe in Deity, how can one believe in it's own Soul? (a Soul, in ALL the Mystery Schools, is an extension of the Divine.)
Where I said, "Religion"...please, let me clarify, "Spirituality"...I was in a rush, & using other peoples words...
I think that the problem with Marriage in this society is that it has become WAY MORE about STUFF...than about THE PEOPLES.