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Getting the state out of marriage

PolyDoc said:
How do we counter the garbage that's going on now? 50% divorce rate, ~10 million homes headed by single mothers, and all the rest."
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We should be very nervous about seeking an impossible ideal. The people of Israel wanted to go into Canaan after they believed the bad report and got their butts whipped. It was too late.

You can't look back at what you used to have and insist you must have it again in an all or nothing fashion. Read also Nehemiah.
Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it: And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
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Hint, Nehemiah is not complaining.
 
We should be very nervous about seeking an impossible ideal. The people of Israel wanted to go into Canaan after they believed the bad report and got their butts whipped. It was too late.

You can't look back at what you used to have and insist you must have it again in an all or nothing fashion. Read also Nehemiah.
Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it: And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
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Hint, Nehemiah is not complaining.[/quote]


Wow. I totally agree. Running after an impossible ideal usually leads to nowhere. Better to deal with the here and now I think.
 
Thanks Donnag,

The point is quite simple. We're not in the state the Biblical Patriarchs were in. We can only restore so much, or at least, so much at a time. To get as close as we're going to get, we're going to have to go through quite a few less than ideal configurations. I don't think we'll see "deregulated marriage" in our lifetimes.

Perhaps our grandchildren may see it, if we are faithful and we build on what we have, and take (from that which is moral) what we can get.
 
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