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Originally Posted by Thor
When people ask me what would replace religion, like its inconcievable that this could happen I point to the secular nations of the nordic people and other EU nations. They have for the most part left religion behind, even though many of these nations keep many traditions alive like marriage/funerals/baptisms in churches. Its called cultural traditions, I think the further our various countries advance this is the eventuality.
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I know from first experience that in Denmark at least, they don't actually care about things like marriage. They see marriage, now that they aren't spiritual, as a contract that is pretty much there for legal reasons only, and even that is not very strong. They view marriage as a trap that women were forced into in the past, and are now free of it. It's a very sad way of looking at it. I know one couple, that despite repeated attempts over 10 years on behalf of the man, they have not married due to tax reasons. I know another couple where both sides apparently got married, then divorced, then got married to each other, because it was convenient. I know there are people here in NA like that, but in Denmark at least, there is an extremely casual view of those things, to the point where they have started to lose their meaning.