plk Posted:

I would suggest taking some cultural anthro clbumes if you think that’s really the case. And if you get married in a religious ceremony by a priest, of course it is religious, but many people avoid having any sort of religious language in their ceremonies and would find it to be rather repulsive to be married in a church.

I’m bumuming by “many people” you mean yourself, and that’s fine. Just for the record, I was an anthropology major for two years, so I’m not as woefully un-schooled in this topic as you think.

I’m also fairly sure that most would agree with me that marriage started with religious language and drifted to the secular side rather than the opposite way around.