{"id":21,"date":"2009-05-27T16:59:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T16:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godhoodism.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2016-05-08T06:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T11:23:00","slug":"marriage-the-bedrock-institution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godhoodism.com\/blog\/marriage-the-bedrock-institution\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage: The Bedrock Institution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-auto kksr-align-left kksr-valign-top\"\n    data-payload='{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;21&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;valign&quot;:&quot;top&quot;,&quot;ignore&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;reference&quot;:&quot;auto&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;count&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;legendonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;readonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;score&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;starsonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;best&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;gap&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;greet&quot;:&quot;Rate this post&quot;,&quot;legend&quot;:&quot;0\\\/5 - (0 votes)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Marriage: The Bedrock Institution&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;_legend&quot;:&quot;{score}\\\/{best} - ({count} {votes})&quot;,&quot;font_factor&quot;:&quot;1.25&quot;}'>\n            \n<div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"2\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"3\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"4\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"5\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-active\" style=\"width: 0px;\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n                \n\n<div class=\"kksr-legend\" style=\"font-size: 19.2px;\">\n            <span class=\"kksr-muted\">Rate this post<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/godhoodism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wedding-couple.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-465\" src=\"http:\/\/godhoodism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wedding-couple-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Wedding Couple\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/godhoodism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wedding-couple-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/godhoodism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wedding-couple-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/godhoodism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wedding-couple-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/godhoodism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wedding-couple.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I find it amusing how some refer to marriage as &#8220;The Bedrock Institution&#8221;. Usually it&#8217;s religious relics desperately clinging to their ancient ways thereby halting\u00a0the progress of societal evolution to an enlightened future. The phrase sounds like an ominous monolith that nobody would want to even get near and 50% of those who enter its unhallowed halls agree by entering into divorce. Marriage is unnecessary and holds no real purpose for intelligent free willed beings. It&#8217;s shackles serve only to bind people into servitude and a false sense of security that can never exist in an imperfect world where God has chosen to abandon his creations. The inane institution causes more harm than good by bending and breaking people&#8217;s spirits and turning them into somebody they aren&#8217;t. The natural conclusion is divorce which leads to exorbitant emotional and financial pain. Instead all who have a free mind should concentrate on planting metaphorical dynamite within the many cracks and crevices of the marriage monolith blowing it sky high to the heavens and letting it scatter down to hell buried with the other ancient artifacts of our society. It&#8217;s an archaic institution that\u00a0few really believe in but instead partake of like mindless drones bound by age old religious traditions. Live free and don&#8217;t let some book of fables written by ancient men hungry for power guide your life!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qNQ2kV1OTPU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it amusing how some refer to marriage as &#8220;The Bedrock Institution&#8221;. 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