Duncan Cary Palmer on Nostr: Hello, Friend @Laserin, "We need to remember why marriage exists." As interesting ...

Hello, Friend @Laserin,

"We need to remember why marriage exists."

As interesting (and disturbing!) as I find your history lesson, I'm here to remind us all of the much older, arguably more important reasons...

Going back to the very first chapters of Genesis, we see that marriage is a "creation ordinance," i.e., a loving prescription from our Creator God for a fundamental, cooperative, complementary union to propagate, expand, bless, and benefit humanity.

Later in Scripture, we observe and learn that from that union flow all the blessings and benefits you've alluded to, particularly a loving, safe, and stable context within which children can grow and learn to become healthy and successful adult members of their community, gifted and capable of creatively blessing the world.

Finally, the Bible insists that the ultimate purpose of marriage (when done right; Ephesians chapter 5) is misteriously symbolic, a living and breathing "explainer" of the almost unimaginably comprehensive love of Jesus/God for his Bride, his beloved assembly of followers from every tribe, tongue, nation, and kindred.

The other historically associated claptrap you've written of (taxation, etc.) are naught but satanically inspired aberrations intended to weaken, discourage, and destroy God-ordained marriages and families, and they need to be universally and vigorously disdained and utterly done away with.