Is Marriage Evolving?

BranderChatfield · 2012-05-25T15:36:52.130793+00:00

There are two main concepts of marriage:

1) Prior to 100 years ago marriage was based on strengthening social ties and the community and ensuring paternity.

2) Today (at least in the West) marriage is based on romantic love and individual happiness.

Marriage in the Bible is based on the more communal and practical ideas of marriage in #1. American marriages today don't really serve a communal purpose any longer and instead serve individual desires. This is the fundamental change. Everything else is just a symptom.

BranderChatfield · 2012-05-25T15:19:06.027407+00:00

It's pretty recent. In the UK marriage certificates only began to be issued by the state in the 1800s. Prior to that marriages were recorded by the local church parish.

Desando · 2012-05-25T15:10:45.244970+00:00

That and the words start repeating pretty quickly.

Davesbeard · 2012-05-25T14:48:50.366987+00:00

TIL the total number of ants on earth weigh almost as much as the total number of Americans.

drewdistilled · 2012-05-25T05:47:18.490734+00:00

I still don't know what the hell the Wizometer is supposed to be.

DivineMaster · 2012-05-24T20:48:37.356994-07:00

At the time Galileo didn't have much evidence for his theory but he painted the geocentrists as idiots.

Alphadude007 · 2012-05-25T02:13:33.923352+00:00

I hate this sort stuff because it assumed that Christians who pray don't bother doing anything else.

DivineMaster · 2012-05-25T02:10:29.553262+00:00

Except Galileo was a hothead and his book wasn't neutral. He made the pope look like an idiot and Galileo didn't exactly have a lot of proof for heliocentrism at the time to overturn 2000 years of established science.

The0therWhiteMeat · 2012-05-25T01:54:04.028585+00:00

Oh man, I hated that show.

WalkerMobile · 1 day

You have to read the story from Abraham's perspective.

In Abraham's day sacrificing children to gods was common. The shock of the story comes when God prevents Abraham from making the sacrifice, not from asking Abraham to do it in the first place.

The point of the story is to show that God abhors human sacrifice. Westerners have seen human sacrifice as abhorrent for thousands of years so the point is somewhat lost on us.

WalkerMobile · 1 day

God's wrath was satisfied in the death of Jesus on the cross.

Penal substitution is a Calvinist novelty.

honestchristian · 1 day

All created things are dependent on God and so cannot be perfect.

theholyprepuce · 2 days

one of the reasons Americans are so religious is because the separation of church and state created a free market for religion which encouraged more responsive churches and denominations to grow at the expense of those who were not nurturing their members.

All that's done is turned religion into a commodity to be marketed to consumers. The largest churches in the United States are very market driven and rely heavily on flashy websites, promotional material, and services.

theholyprepuce · 2 days

(I live in Poland) >90% declare themselves as Catholics, but church attendance is about 25-35% on average.

According to this and several other surveys, church attendance in Poland is close to 60%, which is higher than even the United States.

DuskyOrphan6944 · 2 days

Electronic music with no lyrics.

wallysmith127 · 2 days

I'm on a bit of a gaming hiatus right now. I haven't touched my 360 in two months after playing several hours a day for a year.

I usually enjoy shooters, RPGs, strategy games (like Civilization). I have almost no interest in multiplayer. I've bought every Halo game but I was only interested in the single player campaign.

Some of my all time favorites:

Mario 3, Ultima VII: Serpent Isle (probably my all time favorite game), Civilization series, Wolfenstein 3D, Baldur's Gate, Lemmings, System Shock 2, Fallout 3 & New Vegas, Starcraft.

shnurf · 2 days

Is this what passes for nostalgia now? This game isn't even 10 years old.

Wurm42 · 2 days

The article mentions lots of other books he liked like Ender's Game and you cherry pick these two? He also called Twilight "silly".

phileconomicus · 2 days

People just don't click on ads anymore.

I work for a company that runs a political blog that brings in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in Google ad money and the revenue is still growing.

MrPrestige · 2 days

It's hard to appreciate if you care at all about historical accuracy.

mepper · 2 days

A "dark age" is a period in history characterized by a relative lack of written records. The collapse of the Western Roman Empire disrupted most of the social, cultural, and political institutions of Western Europe. In fact without the Catholic Church as the only surviving social institution, there would have been no cathedrals or monasteries built to perpetuate Latin as a common language or to preserve Classical learning.

The Greeks also had a dark age. It has nothing to do with intellectual stagnation or religion.

funkmastaschnob · 2 days

The Bible doesn't really deal with the modern concept of race. It categorizes people by nation.

mepper · 2 days

It's amazing how many people still perpetuate this myth.

therealdjbc · 2 days

Even the first Cars wasn't that great. I found a world that was populated by cars instead of people to be kind of, well, dumb. I mean the characters are cars acting like people, but they're cars.

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