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Originally Posted by Dion
The vast majority of people don't have this hang up that you and some others have about being married in a church. For most, it's a one day thing and it's over. They get a wedding, they may not have been able to afford, and the family peace is intact.
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It's a matter of principle - if you deny the authority of religion, don't you think you deny the authority of priests, ministers, mullahs, rabbis and all the other mumbo-jumbo merchants? Therefore, wouldn't you think that there is no moral basis for such a person to be able to preside at your marriage? Saying it "doesn't really matter" almost seems like denigrating the institution of marriage itself, "I'm willing to compromise my principles because after all, it's only a marriage."
I doubt very much I could even marry someone who was more than a lukewarm believer; one of you has to compromise and it seems more likely to be the atheist, as you cannot reason with someone's non-rational beliefs, while that someone can certainly affect your rational perception of whether or not it is worth endlessly fighting about religion.