Question to my brothers and sisters in Christ:
a separation of church and state would also involve marriage
Has the church ever debated why the church should or shouldn’t pay for the marriage certificate when they get married?
I never thought a thing about it until I got engaged myself back in ’08. But I remember thinking, “why do I have to go to a secular courthouse to pay for this religious covenant?”.
As Christians we know marriage as a covenant between a man and a woman with God. By paying the state for a marriage certificate we are paying a tax on this covenant.
Right?
Why not also pay for a communion certificate, tax, also?
By paying for the marriage certificate we enable the state to define what this covenant is and isn’t that essentially facilitates a secular culture to culturally appropriate a religious covenant which preexists Western society thousands of years. It goes without being said, but secular culture has no interest in God’s covenants.
Why then pay into that system via a tax on a covenant that at the same time abrogates our responsibility to God to withhold this covenant as he made it? Does not paying for the marriage certificate (tax) inadvertently mistakenly say the state is the point of origin for marriage instead of God?
Should not the Christian church advocate Christians not pay the state for the marriage certificate?
