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Congress has never been more dysfunctional because the Catholic Church is trying to get the Republicans to legislate morality
Dude..Who are all the
CATHOLIC republicans you speak of. How many are in Electoral College? We are rare and hassled by family all the time! MOST CATHOLICS ARE DEMOCRATS.(see above). You keep parroting it-give ONE solid example? Who when ? Did they meet even the Pope-are they often invited to Archbishops Councils?
You want to bash Republicans and Catholics so bad you are making them into a chimera. You must be very extreme Left to be so focused and obsessed on unsubstatiated theory. you may truthfully and correctly say radical Right supporters. But the rest is whiney biased hogwash. And kinda offensive.
And you are unlikely a US Catholic are you...or you would know this.
The Church didn't require a priest at marriage until 1563, so for approximately 1200 years all people had to do was move in together which is what they did.
"SURVEY SAYS?" Bzzzzt!
A simplistic view... the Church still had rules. As did non Christians. Which "The Church " do you refer? After it as called Catholic?As did non Christians. There were many SPECIFIC rules for marriage even in primitive culture.. though no piece of paper. Modern property law was not as it was then, nor couples raising children themselves instead of in big family clan units. I know Cherokee didn't just "shack up " and it is instant marriage bann.
Because it was all about land ownership-specially the later styles of marriage. At least these customs provided women with some limited freedoms.
Catholicism was the practiced religion, and everything revolved around the parish church. Before a marriage could take place, the church required that there be no relation between the couple. This issue was debated for centuries, but as early as the 13th century, it was fixed at four degrees. (This means that a couple who shared a great-great-grandfather could not marry.) This often created a problem for the people living within a small village. A preexisting marriage or prior marriage agreement could also prevent the marriage (Marriage: MOwest).
blogs.wp.missouristate.edu/creativewritingcontest/2008/07/19/marriage
However Ancient Egypt did
Marriage was an agreement or a contract between two families[/i] that involved the exchange of gifts and property. (...)
In Catholic Scotland it was required to obtain a marriage license or to have the banns read in church for three Sundays in a row
Wedding rings-more durable than paper is as old as 2800BC Egypt
Which finger is ring finger is as old as 3rdBC Greece
Marriage Customs from 200 N. EU like carrying the bride over threshold are with us today
During European feudal times, all public announcements concerning deaths, taxes, or births were called "banns". Today we use the term exclusively for an announcement that two people propose to marry. That interpretation began as a result of an order by Charlemagne, king of the
Franks, who on Christmas Day in A.D. 800was crowned Emperor of the Romans, marking
the birth of the Holy Roman Empire . Charlemagne, with a vast region to rule, had a practical medical reason for instituting marriage banns.HE issued an edict throughout his unified kingdom: All marriages were to be publicly proclaimed at least seven days prior to the ceremony.
churchofancientways.org/banns.html
**try reading "Origin of Family, Private Property and the State by F. Engels
Dickerman, Lysander. "The Condition of Women in Ancient Egypt."
Gilchrist, A. G. "A Curious Scottish Marriage Custom."
Hartland, E. Sidney. "Marriage Superstitions
Wedding Traditions - Excerpts From
"Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things"by Charles Panati
Your use of "cynic" is clever but does not apply in context. they were a cult following of Antisthenes (socrates lesser disciple angry that favor was given to the monied student; Plato. asn had a political bent against teh affluent which is were his preaching morality =no materials craop came from) who became famous for being alybaout rabble and for viscious physical attacks on the rich Good reads:
The Athenian Agora & Socrates in Agora by the Am Schol of Classical studies: Athens
Daily Life in Ancient Greece By R. Flaciere
Any tongue in cheek work by Xenophon
Ancient Greece at Work by Glotz
Oh and The Holy Bible. It really is a good read..agree or not with its content. New testament mostly applies to today with exceptions Jesus mentioned from deuteronomy and numbers. And the Didache...though you may not consider THAT scripture even if it is a compilation done by the living apostles of Jesus and their disciples. The Scriptures do not use word "MORTAL" but you are shaving hens teeth. However Jesus, John and Paul ALL address the sins of eternal Death and their works are considered 'Scriptures" The Catholic Church named the deadly sins venial and mortal. But they were named and split in the time of Christ. The sins you could chance dying with versus the sins that were one way tickets to hot town.
wow what a waste of my classical education..... the internet.*sigh*
