In case you’re sitting in church every week thinking mankind is doing just fine…
It’s an actual article about actual people who have actually lost their minds.
Christians are supposed to shine light in darkness.
Be prepared with a response for when you get invited to a “secular wedding celebrant”.
USA: Amanda Holowaty didn’t need God to get married. She just needed her husband, Mike.
Actually, Amanda Holowaty needs a vague understanding of what she means by the term “get married” so she can explain it to husband Mike. Otherwise, he won’t know they aren’t “just dating”.
USA: When the atheist couple decided to join their lives a year ago, they knew they wanted a secular wedding celebrant, but their families weren’t so sure.
Her family is Methodist and his is “generally spiritual.” And they worried about even telling Mike’s grandmother, who is Eastern Orthodox.
They were right to worry about telling the families. There’s no way way their announcement won’t be convoluted and dumb:
“We’ve been living together having sex for a year. Bring us gifts as we declare our intention to keep living together and having sex. Celebrate the new chapter in our lives as we start filing our taxes jointly!”
USA: So they found a wedding celebrant ordained through the Humanist Society, who allowed their family members to read a spiritual poem.
“Nobody seemed to notice that we didn’t mention God,” Holowaty said. “People came up afterward and said it was one of the best weddings they’d seen.”
Being ordained by the Humanist Society is like being declared kosher by Hell’s Angels.
The family should politely decline the spiritual poem. Leave Amanda Holowaty to figure out how to plan a wedding ceremony without a hint of spiritual significance. Let the godless bride come up with an idea that will make her ‘big day’ more interesting than a speeding ticket.
USA: The creative elements of a humanist wedding don’t differ much from a religious one. There are sand-mixing ceremonies, candle-lighting ceremonies and walking down an aisle in a white dress. Vows are typically written by the couples themselves…
USA:Â Amanda and Mike Holawaty didn’t want to settle for a justice of the peace. They wanted to celebrate their values in a scenic wedding near the ocean.
“You see weddings in movies and on TV, the bride being given away and walking down the aisle,” she said. “It was really the same desire for us, just minus the religious aspect.”
They wanted a secular wedding but didn’t want to “settle for” a secular service. So they hired a non-religious “celebrant” to perform a service that is indistinguishable from a religious ceremony, because they don’t want the religious aspect.
It’s okay to laugh at these people because their marriage is a joke.
Marriage is God’s idea. There is no such thing as ‘secular marriage’. Nothing important happened when they ‘joined their lives’ standing next to the ocean. They might as well have sent invitations for friends to come watch them join the YMCA or Sam’s Club.
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These sentiments are why fundies are going extinct.
Yes. My words have the power to wipe out an entire people group.
The practice of bonding a couple or marriage is ancient, practiced by people across the globe and existed long before Christianity, before Judaism and before most of the religious systems were created and therefore was first introduced by Pagans.
Marriage grew out of a natural attraction and desires between the genders and the emotional bonding and support between male and female.
Evidently the Australian Aboriginals who go back at least 30,000 years have a strong marriage tradition and the Chinese have a wedding tradition dating from about the third century.
Thanks for telling us.
Ahhh yes. Hubby and I recently attended one of these secular weddings. Not quite “humanist,” in the sense that they did have lady pastor. She spoke quite a bit about the importance of “partnering with your significant other in a non gender binary way, free of the cis gendered hetero-patriarchal paradigm. ” The bride and groom were actually male and female. Hubby and I resisted the urge to counteract that lovely pastoral message and just explain the birds and the bees to them. We did have some fits of giggles, however.
Sounds very edgy! 😉
Sadly, no. Where I live edgy is the new normal.
My point, people think they were created to please themselves and their secular societies they own allegiance to. Marriage in deed is for Christians who believe in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. I recently suffer a backlash about an article l entitled “Every couple should give birth or adopt children”. Brother John l strongly pray for you to continue to say it in the midst of strong secular religious fanatical society.