In what religion do atheist are getting maried?
By mathikyu
@mathikyu (46)
Malaysia
February 21, 2011 8:08pm CST
If the atheist are non-believer of God. Then they don't believe the religions and its formalities too. If they don't have any belief in formalities of religion, in what method they will get married? According to law system, people should register the marriage according to their religion like Hindu Religion Act, Muslim Religion Act, Christian Religion Act. But for atheist?
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@globaldoc (858)
• Philippines
26 Feb 11
Many people get married in the local city government. iT is just the same.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
22 Feb 11
That's not the case. I believe in God, but not necessarily any religion's "presentation of what to call God." 
I guess right now I am a Buddhist. It's said that Buddhists are sort of self-worshiping atheists, but that is only true if you want to keep your mind locked into the path of the rest of the flock.
Buddhists may or may-not believe in God, but they know that 'God' is so far-above and -beyond anything they could ever understand that it's best just to keep their eye on the path set before them by their enlightened leader.
Marriage is not for religion, but for man.
I guess right now I am a Buddhist. It's said that Buddhists are sort of self-worshiping atheists, but that is only true if you want to keep your mind locked into the path of the rest of the flock.
Buddhists may or may-not believe in God, but they know that 'God' is so far-above and -beyond anything they could ever understand that it's best just to keep their eye on the path set before them by their enlightened leader.
Marriage is not for religion, but for man.@spiderlizard22 (3444)
• United States
26 Feb 11
I heard someone say that budda rejects the idea of god but believes in other supernatural forces that aren't god.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1 Mar 11
A 'Buddha' is not so much 'a person' as 'the way a person could act' (just like a 'gay' is not a person, but is 'the way a person who prefers the romantic company of its own gender to that -of its opposite gender').
A Buddha--just like everyone else--lives in the world. Whether there's a Hank-Williams-Jr.-in-the-Sky watching over us or not, we all live in the world. Whether we believe in God or not, we all have 'our crosses to bear' (positions to fulfill, missions to accomplish, jobs to do, expectations to live up-to) which are dealt to us by 'the way things are' and 'the way things will be' (both being translations of the words that came to mean "God").
A Buddha realizes that God has no control over anything (unless we somehow give it to Him). (If you don't like how that feels, remember that God gave man control over EVERYTHING in Genesis ... maybe that means man has more responsibility than it can handle, but things we don't control are taken over by 'forces of nature'---these are the Buddha's other supernatural forces (demons and obstacles) ...
(Most of those are the combined effects of children-of-man's actions (wind etc.) but they are all finished by 'the power of God' a.k.a. gravity.)
@thinkingoutloud (6127)
• Canada
22 Feb 11
You assume that all marriages result from a religious ceremony (or must be linked to a specific religion) and that is simply not true. In places like the United States, there is civil marriage and religious marriage. All marriages in the US have the civil requirement because there must be a marriage license but only some people will choose to have a religious ceremony. I did a bit of reading on this and other countries such as Germany and France require the civil ceremony. Having a religious recognition later is at the choice of the couple but it's only the civil recognition that is necessary.
@Latrivia (2878)
• United States
2 Apr 11
I suppose that depends on a lot of different aspects such as culture, upbringing, and of course, the religion of the spouse-to-be. A marriage and a wedding are two separate entities, though, and you can have one without the other.
There's always a civil ceremony, or simply going up to a justice of the peace and putting your names on paper. You could adopt traditions of a religion you like (for example, I liked the concept of hand fasting).
In my own case, my wedding was a performed by a Christian pastor and was Christian in nature. This was done to pacify my family and my husband's family, since they are Christian and he believes in a god. It wasn't my ideal wedding, but it was good one nonetheless.
@alindobre (148)
• Romania
22 Feb 11
In our country legal marriage and religious marriage are separate. You can do the legal without the religious, but not the other way around.
@daeckardt (6237)
• United States
22 Feb 11
I'm not sure what the custom is in your country, but many people in America just get married by a judge rather than in a church of any kind. It just formalizes the relationship so that everyone knows it is official. This works for people who are not from any religion. Does that help?
