New Controversial 'Marriage Question'

[Angelakillsluts]

aahahhaha

[ShankS]

yohy lot dont know the half dof it. I'm abour to open the glenfiddidsng now and its' a big fat 1liert bottle and its 1;46 in the mornignand aI ant got work for 3 days loolooloooololllllll :D

[urgeok]

gor blimey, the lad's knackered !

[ShankS]

not yet inant

[FairyKorpes]

If you type like that and you're not drunk, wtf is it gonna look like when you are lol.

[The STE]

Originally posted by ShankS
yohy lot dont know the half dof it. I'm abour to open the glenfiddidsng now and its' a big fat 1liert bottle and its 1;46 in the mornignand aI ant got work for 3 days loolooloooololllllll :D

nonono, I understand that a lot easier than Modestas

"You lot don't know the half of it. I'm about to open the *some type alcohol* now and it's a big fat 1 litre bottle and it's 1:46 in the morning and I ain't got work for 3 days Bwahahahaha :D"

more or less, right?

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by bloodrayne
What Wiccan would WANT to be married in a Christian church?...That's part of my point...

One of the MAJOR reasons that this country was even FOUNDED was because we left England to 'Flee from Religious Persecution'

Why should people of other religions be FORCED to carry out Christian ceremonies, just to be 'legally married'?......What if a Christian was told that THEIR marriage 'didn't count' unless it was performed the same way that another religion may consider valid?...Christian marriage ceremonies would actually be 'blasphemous' in the face of other religions, would they not?

Rayne, the puritans wanted to be free to practice their religion. notice, as soon as they started noticing others bneing interested in other religions (wiccan being one of them) they started burning, hanging and crushing them.

I think metallica had a good line on And Justice For All (i think it was Eye of the Beholder, the song anyway)


"Freedom of choices, made for you"

[bwind22]

Originally posted by The STE
It would cover marriage, too. Marriage is a religious practice, so technically the government shouldn't have much, if any, say in it.

I could not agree more! The term 'Marriage' is a religious one and should have never been allowed to become a legal definition. To me it's like saying that someone who has received the Christian sacrament of Confirmation gets a special tax credit each year.

And it would also rule out making laws based on things in the bible

I do not agree with this half of your statement however. If we do away with laws that we got from the bible, then suddenly it becomes okay to lie, steal or cheat on your spouse. Our founding fathers made the majority of their rules based on the Bible. (Which is why you will find the 10 Commandments posted in almost every single courthouse in the country.) I don't think too many people would argue that we should legalize murder, so to some extent, we need these rules.

[Vodstok]

The ten comandments are basic rules for living your life, and they translate as "right" across any religion, or lack there of. However, you dont have to be religious to be moral. They are fundamental morals, the writers of the bible were just good enough to put it to paper.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by Vodstok
The ten comandments are basic rules for living your life, and they translate as "right" across any religion, or lack there of. However, you dont have to be religious to be moral. They are fundamental morals, the writers of the bible were just good enough to put it to paper.

they are common sense rules for existing within a community.
every society came up with similar beliefs,
Religion is used as an enforcer.
(if the penalty of law : execution/jail time/hand cut off .. isn't enough of a deterrent .. then maybe the threat of eternal damnation will do the trick)

And this is when the relationship of church and state started - and became so meshed in the christian church that at one point the king was 'ordained by god' and disobeying the wishes of the king was disobeying god him/her/it/self.

The history of the church and state is so rife with corruption and hypocracy it's embarrasing.