Christian groups typically invest much effort trying to keep Christ in Christmas or to put him back there.
This is in view of the relentless squeeze from secularism on one side and commercialism on the other.
Why bother?
Why don’t we just walk away from the public festival and leave it to its pagan roots as a solstice festival? (Think Constantine and his reasons for dating the Christmas celebration as he did.)
We can then have a distinctly Christian festival to mark Jesus’ birth, if we so choose, at a time of our choosing.
Let the unbelievers have their ‘Xmas’ and debauch it as they will!
Can this principle be extended to marriage?
In several western countries the fundamental Christian character of marriage is being undermined by easy divorce on the one hand and permission of homosexual marriage on the other hand. Thus Christians may find themselves hand in hand on the marriage register with persons of multiple marriage partners and with same-sex partners.
Once again, Christian groups invest much energy trying to preserve or restore the basically Christian character of marriage. Is it worth it?
What would happen if Christians simply opted out from the legal marriage system? Why not start a register of Christian marriages which is kept by the churches (as in previous times) and then have Christian couples register a civil union with the government for the sake of orderly property etc matters?
Let the unbelievers have ‘marriage’ and debauch it as they will!
Let Christians be Christians and the world be the world!
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