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Not sure you are going back far enough. This is a clearcut case of "Render unto Caesar". The church lost 200 years ago when governments got involved in marria
by opwieurposiu 6y ago
Not sure you are going back far enough. This is a clearcut case of "Render unto Caesar". The church lost 200 years ago when governments got involved in marriage.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> The church lost 200 years ago when governments got involved in marriage. Governments were involved with marriage long before there was a Catholic Church, and the Catholic Church was around long before it got involved in regulating marriage (which, again, governments already did.) OTOH, for quite a while in Western Europe, there wasn't a real dividing line between the Church and governments, and their roles regarding marriage as both a sacrament and a civil institution were deeply intertwined.