Do you think Atheists should get married ? Aren't Weddings Religious Events? What do you think?

Question

Do you think Atheists should get married ? Aren't Weddings Religious Events? What do you think?

Answer 1

Yes, they should..... weddings are not necessarily religious events, there are also legal and financial benefits.... oh yeah... and LOVE!! we get married to show our love for one another... it doesn't have to be a religious event

Answer 2

Of course, as an atheist myself I'll tell you why.

Getting married isn't a religious event, only if you get married inside of a church, chapel, or any other religious place.

As an atheist, I believe everyone has the right to get married, including gay and lesbian people.

Getting married on a beach say, would not be getting married in the Church, making it an unreligious event. It is not approved by them beforehand, and it is not IN the Church, so they do not write it in their records so they act is if you weren't married.

You may be confused, Matrimony is a religious sacrament in the Church. Marriage is something anyone can do, atheists and gays included.

Answer 3

Weddings aren't religious events. Ever hear of "justice of the peace"?



Frankly, I'm not doing any harm to anyone by not believing in God, and it's just something that I believe in. I don't see how that makes me a bad person to the point where I can't get married.



Have a nice day.

Answer 4

Make it so I don't have to deal with any influence from your religion in my government, then we can start in on stuff like marriage and holidays you want to claim as yours only. Of course, then a marriage would not have any more to do with legality or the government than a baptism does now.



I just got married a few months ago. This time, it was in front of a judge and there was nothing religious mentioned at any point. It was basically a legal ceremony and a social celebration.

Answer 5

"Do you think Atheists should get married ?" <<<< Who is going to stop them? Why do you care? There are benefits for a couple to be married that are also part of marriage. My husband and I are atheists. We were married by the Deputy Commissioner of Marriages in Washoe County, Nevada, 38 years ago. Where's the problem?



@Patrick: "Marriage was instituted by God as you know. So it is a farce without God.

Atheists and homosexuals have a problem and try to muscle in on what Christians enjoy" <<<< Muscle in? What the hell do you mean? I am insulted by your cavalier trash-talking. As an atheist, I am insulted. I have been married 38 years and I'm an atheist and so are my kids. My next-door neighbors had been married for 22 years and were fundamentalist Christians. They got divorced after 24 years of marriage and it was not pretty, .

Answer 6

Let me guess... Christian? There have been marriages, weddings, long before there was any such thing as Christianity. Weddings can indeed be "Religious Events", but certainly are not always such.



If atheists want to marry, why not?

Answer 7

No they are not just religious events. Weddings are cultural ceremonies. But I don't see why they need a christian priest to get married when neither of them are religious though.. Why would you need some religious fanatic to get legally married? It makes no sense to me.

Answer 8

a wedding is not a religious event (or doesn't have to be)



there were weddings before christianity was invented



there were weddings before religion even came about

Answer 9

they can be a religious event, but they don't have to be. And in case your one of those Christians who think your religion invented marriage you need to wake up and look around a little. People were getting married 34,000 years ago. Long before the stories in the bible were ever thought up.

Answer 10

if they are atheists and have a religious wedding then it would be a little hypocritical,if they have a civil event then it is more for society or the recognition of blah etc

Answer 11

Weddings are more social and economic bindings than exclusively religious events.

Answer 12

Marriage is not a Christian institution. Marriage has been practiced long before Christianity was invented - and there were even these things called gay marriages back in the day for the more tolerant societies. When you throw in legal rights, everyone deserves to be equal (separate is not equal).



Don't you think Christians shouldn't be allowed to divorce since it is so against the Bible?

Answer 13

Marriage existed in dozens of cultures predating Christianity.

It was often to strengthen political/family ties or to increase wealth.

If you paid attention when the Odyssey was read to us in high school, you'd have learned this.

Christians, in their arrogance, think they are reserved a patent on this process that was never theirs in the first place. Today, marriage still nothing more than a legally recognized union of two people, legitimized in a courthouse, not a church.

Answer 14

God did create the first married couple. Adam and Eve. How did that get overlooked?



Gen1:21-25, 21 Hence Jehovah God had a deep sleep fall upon the man and, while he was sleeping, he took one of his ribs and then closed up the flesh over its place. 22 And Jehovah God proceeded to build the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman and to bring her to the man.

23 Then the man said:

“This is at last bone of my bones

And flesh of my flesh.

This one will be called Woman,

Because from man this one was taken.”

24 That is why a man will leave his father and his mother and he must stick to his wife and they must become one flesh. 25 And both of them continued to be naked, the man and his wife, and yet they did not become ashamed.

Answer 15

Not all weddings are religious. You can swap vows without mentioning god or anything else religious. Just because two people don't believe in god doesn't mean they don't have love!

Answer 16

Marriage has nothing to do with religion at all. It's a joining of two people. People of any religion should get married if they choose.

Answer 17

Marriage is more of a civil thing these days. I know plenty of people who have had weddings without a church, or a priest.

Answer 18

Marriage was instituted by God as you know. So it is a farce without God.

Atheists and homosexuals have a problem and try to muscle in on what Christians enjoy.

Answer 19

There are legal benefits to being married, co-habiting is not recognised in law. It is also a public declaration of love, and should be afforded to all couples if they so choose - gay and straight.

Answer 20

they can be, but weddings are also symbolic of Monogamy and devotion to one person. It is an important promise two people make to each other. Animals can also have this sort of bond in the animal kingdom http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/11-animals-that-mate-for-life/old-faithful

Answer 21

weddings have been around for a long time, a lot longer than Christians think. humans are social (and monogamous) creatures, it's how we evolved

Answer 22

Marriage results in many benefits from the government (taxes, etc). I'm strongly opposed to this. Sometimes when people are discussing gay marriage I'll chime in and say "I'm against gay marriage." They often think I'm kidding. But then I say I'm against straight marriage too and they realize I'm not.

Answer 23

no marriage exists without religion, along with a long list of other things, except maybe god, god would not exist without religion and thats about it

Answer 24

Well actually, weddings came before religion was even invented.

Answer 25

Certain fundies seem to think so, but that does not make it true.

Answer 26

good point....