The London Times thinks marriage is “dated, discredited, and deeply ungroovy.” In fact, according to the online edition, the “marriage comeback” (the recent increase in married couples) cannot be explained by anything logical.
“Marriage is also — whatever spin you put on it — the final frontier in the relationship game. Nobody has come up with a more definitive statement of a couple’s commitment. Having a child, or buying a house together, has far greater consequences, and yet you only need to talk to people who have done both, but avoided the m-word, to know that marriage is a declaration in another league. Despite the “it’s only a bit of paper” argument, the relative ease with which you can get unmarried, the apparent meaninglessness of the marriage vows in a world where 40% are revoked, it still represents something wonderful, or terrifying, depending on which side of the fence you fall.”
It’s fascinating to watch how minds that simply believe marriage to be an odd creation of a lonely society can become so incoherent in their marriage musings. The Times cannot explain why marriage survives in the 20th century, let alone grows. Perhaps the secularist view of marriage leaves something out that might explain something: GOD.
