Indiana and Arkansas Religious Freedom Law

**Janszoon** · 04-01-2015, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Wpnfire

First of all, your usage of the word "Jew" there is interesting. The Jews were only referred to as such after Israel was created, and the creation of Israel coincided with instruction from God. Marriage was defined around that time.

oops. I mean jerusalem.

And? The point is that they were around and performing marriages before there was any such thing as Christianity. So according to Christian tradition itself, marriage predates Christianity.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 04-01-2015, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Wpnfire

Oh piss. That's what I get for not paying attention in english class.

First of all, your usage of the word "Jew" there is interesting. The Jews were only referred to as such after Israel was created, and the creation of Israel coincided with instruction from God. Marriage was defined around that time.

oops. I mean jerusalem.

You're kinda scary in an argument. You're like three steps ahead of everybody else.

By the way, the answer is Germany circa 1940.

i see you're getting your history straight from the good book. you might want to explain why pagan cultures like the sumerians also had marriage as a social institution even before any confirmed hebrew texts

RoxyRollah · 04-01-2015, 08:14 PM

tou****ingche.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 04-01-2015, 09:17 PM

btw people in the south are still racist it's just toned down a lot over the years

but yea overall operation "let black people drink from normal water fountains" was a success

Wpnfire · 04-01-2015, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

i see you're getting your history straight from the good book. you might want to explain why pagan cultures like the sumerians also had marriage as a social institution even before any confirmed hebrew texts

I'm not very familiar with Sumerian culture, though I am familiar with their pantheon of gods which, most of them, demanded sexual intercourse with a woman who is menstruating as worship, so I doubt their definition of marriage was well defined beyond the ability to have sex all the time.

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

And? The point is that they were around and performing marriages before there was any such thing as Christianity. So according to Christian tradition itself, marriage predates Christianity.

No. This is a specific teaching, not the whole bible. The Torah was already written and kept in the temple of Jerusalem. Before then, it was an oral tradition kept to the letter since first revealed by God.

**Janszoon** · 04-01-2015, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Wpnfire

No. This is a specific teaching, not the whole bible. The Torah was already written and kept in the temple of Jerusalem. Before then, it was an oral tradition kept to the letter since first revealed by God.

And this has what exactly to do with my post?

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 04-01-2015, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Wpnfire

I'm not very familiar with Sumerian culture, though I am familiar with their pantheon of gods which, most of them, demanded sexual intercourse with a woman who is menstruating, so I doubt their definition of marriage was well defined beyond the ability to have sex all the time.

source?

i honestly don't understand what point that was meant to make, but either way you've officially diverted my attention away from the marriage debate and towards hearing more about these sumerian period-sex rituals

Wpnfire · 04-01-2015, 10:16 PM

Bah. I don't think I can continue this marriage conversation as my knowledge on this topic has reached its limits.

Well Sumeria didn't have one of 'those' gods, (though they did exist!) but they did have Inanna, which required certain marriages. I remembered it wrong, which I take it is a good sign I should quit now.
Inanna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The House of Heaven temple in Uruk was the greatest of these, where sacred prostitution was a common practice...After its dedication to Inanna the temple seems to have housed priestesses of the goddess. The high priestess would choose for her bed a young man who represented the shepherd Dumuzid, consort of Inanna, in a hieros gamos or sacred marriage, celebrated during the annual Akitu (New Year) ceremony, at the spring Equinox.

Lol. House of heaven.

and lol the marriage ceremony had to be conducted during the spring Equinox.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 04-01-2015, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Wpnfire

Bah. I don't think I can continue this marriage conversation as my knowledge on this topic has reached its limits.

Well Sumeria didn't have one of 'those' gods, (though they did exist!) but they did have Inanna, which required certain marriages. I remembered it wrong, which I take it is a good sign I should quit now.
Inanna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lol. House of heaven.

and lol the marriage ceremony had to be conducted during the spring Equinox.

that's honestly disappointing. i was hoping the period-sex rituals were real

The Batlord · 04-01-2015, 10:08 PM

Ur. Come for Gilgamesh. Stay for the Red Wings.

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