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"In atheist churches, by atheist ministers, yes of course."
I don't think you're entirely clear on this whole "atheist" concept.
"In the eyes of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and in the eyes of man."
You people can't all be so stupid as to actually believe this FSM joke is taken seriously, can you?
"Can't believe I forget about that."
And I can't believe you actually posted such stupidity on a public forum.
Atheist...Churches?
As an Aspie it baffles me that someone whose supposed to be logical believes in this sort of drivel. I have a hunch this slowmutant realizes how illogical he's being and is acting like this out of a desperation to fit in. When I was in middle school I said antigay things and took it to an extreme trying to fit in. Turned out bi. Slowmutant should just fess up and admit to being gay/bi.
That or this assholes another faddy Aspie wannabe.
I genuflect at my Alter of Darwin.
> "Can't believe I forget about that." <
At my church I especially enjoy the rituals of unholy blasphemy,
@ Canadiest - Except there are no believers in the FSM. It's a joke religion designed to mock Christianity.
But yeah, I'd totally marry in the eyes of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Wearing pirate costumes to the wedding is mandatory.
No, they're called courts and judges (atheists don't have churches, we only invoke the flying spaghetti monster as a response to your inane and facile demands that we have some sort of deity despite the fact that by definition we don't). Yes they have the right to perform secular marriages (power invested and so forth...) and to officially notarized the legal contract between a married couple. And for your information, where marriage becomes a legal institution under the auspices of the US constitution, it ceases to be a religious institution and is not bound by religious definition.
In my country only one in the couple needs to be Christian, in order to marry in a church.
I wasn't an atheist yet at that point, but definitely an agnostic.
Interesting to note that this fundie seems to think that the church marriage is the 'real' thing. He is completely wrong.
Here in Germany, until recently it was even illegal to perform a marriage ritual in a church *before* making the legally binding ceremony at the civil office.
Everybody who wanted to marry had to go *first* to the civil office here. Afterwards, everybody was completely free to do the nice (but nevertheless irrelevant) ritual in church.
The civil marriage is the real thing which gives the partners all the rights and duties of marriage. The church marriage is nothing but a nice ritual with no further legal consequences. This german law served the purpose of making this absolutely clear. When the catholic church became too insolent and claimed a monopoly on marriage, this law was introduced by Bismarck to put the churches back into their place.
@Anon2
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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