• owenfromcanada@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    The use of the word “slavery” is strange, but there are plenty of Christians who took this view of marriage. The Quakers pretty much died out because they believed celibacy was better than marriage.

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      2 years ago

      The context of those passages, as I recall, is basically that “Jesus is gonna come back any second now, so don’t bother with worldly concerns like marriage and making babies. Just devote your life to being a good Christian and leave the fornicating to the heathens, unless you absolutely can’t live without getting laid on the regular.” It’s hard to understate the degree to which the early church was basically a doomsday cult. They were certain that the Rapture was going to happen in their lifetimes, and that short time horizon had a big impact on how they thought their society should be organized.

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      2 years ago

      Yeah, he says “look buddy, you can do it if you want, but I’m telling you right now, you won’t enjoy the trouble it brings you”.

      Which is basically what my drunk divorced friend told me before I got married…