I think it’s sad that common sense traditions that work for the vast majority of the population are only acceptable in a religious context, lest they be forced

I think it’s sad that common sense traditions that work for the vast majority of the population are only acceptable in a religious context, lest they be forced to fit the demands and ideology of every small and intolerant minority, or worse, the profit motive of the life dysfunction industry. It’s like, people have had religious tradition for thousands of years, and the anti-religion cult thinks they’re the first ones to question the magic fairy tales. Like, maybe there’s a reason for giving everybody a common basis of values to relate to one another, and maybe inclusive secular humanism has repeatedly failed for lack of premise. Maybe wise people got tired of the debate. Nope, sorry, can’t do that; god says no. Secularism worked for me as an independent person, but failed miserably in any instance of disagreement over values that affect more than one person. Turns out that my personal values weren’t much different than those of any major religion, but wow, I didn’t realize how far off it would be from other people without religion. My guess is that the marriage program would do very little for people not in the religion, aside from possibly identifying a lot of reasons not to get married, one of them being that a lack of strong cultural grounding in values, such as religion, is a starting disadvantage to an already difficult problem.