Re: Marriage, With Child, Sex and motherhood.

Michael Adams wrote:
> People forget that marriage for many centuries was a SECULAR
> thing, only during the middle ages with the rise of the Catholic
> church and its records keeping, did marriage become religious,
I hate to disillusion you, but Christians were having Christian marriage
long before the Middle Ages. Indeed, during the 'Dark Ages' that
followed the gradual break up of the western Roman Empire, there were
precious few civil authorities to regulate secular marriage - and that
was way before the Middle Ages.

Also, I am not sure how the Orthodox Christians of the Eastern Empire,
which endured to the 15th cent would re-act to the above claim that
marriage only became religious with the rise of Catholicism in the
Middle Ages!!!!

I may have misunderstood, but I was sort of under the impression that
the marriage regulations in Old Testament had religious significance.

I can assure you that in the PRE-Christian pagan Roman Empire, marriage
was most certainly religious.

> other than you asked for things to be blessed.
>
> Ireland it was secular up until the 1500s or so.
Oh! So the Irish mission of Columba, Aidan and others to Britain in the
6th & 7th centuries, and indeed to mainland Europe, weren't religious!
     :-D))))

> Only with the
> choice "Catholic or Protestant" became embroiled in the Henry
> VIII debates, and the link of Catholic = Irish, English =
> Protestant.. Did many of the Irish even care about strict
> observations of the faith.
I don't think it would be wise to repeat the above in any Irish pub  ;)

What is the point of these incredibly inaccurate ramblings? What have
they to do with *CONLANGING*?

You post "information" about Mormons, that Dirk knows nothing about; you
post these inaccuracies above. Are you deliberately trying to annoy
people and provoke flames?

Please don't do it.

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