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The whole marriage/divorce thing is a artifact of history. It comes out of a time when keeping the paperwork to figure out inheritance was difficult to put it
by digi_owl 10y ago
The whole marriage/divorce thing is a artifact of history.
It comes out of a time when keeping the paperwork to figure out inheritance was difficult to put it mildly. So instead one put on a formal event before witnesses.
And because back then the line between government and religion was downright non-existing, the formal event was given a religious meaning.
And so we have the mess we are still dealing with today...
- gakada 10y agoMarriage and religion are both prehistoric. They are cultural universals, present wherever you look. The ubiquity of marriage across vastly disparate cultures means either that there's a strong force compelling all societies to develop it, or it's so old that we took it out of Africa with us.