It has always been a business contract and always will be. A legal document. Making a promise to someone has nothing to do with it. Love is wonderful and should not be used as a tax shelter.

Biblical marriage is a sacred bond between one man and his 300 wives and 700 concubines.

Marriage used to be a contract to tie families together, where wives were considered nothing more than goods and chattel. I really enjoyed reading Elizabeth Gilbert's book about this - Committed.

I would say every man is a god and every woman is a godess which means we make choices to marry or not to marry.

Marriage is several things. The confusion is they all use the same word, and some only recognize one of them. It serves both a religious function and multiple social functions, depending on the society, binding families, responsibility of raising children, ownership of property, wife as property.

As long as a state or governmental entity in a free society gives a benefit to it, then is not any other entities right to deny others something that the government gives as a benefit some. Churches who say marriage is their sacred right are fools.

I guess it depends on your definition of "magical". Not trying to be cheesy here, but there should be something beyond language in a marriage. I think. I'm divorced. Clearly, I don't know what "it" is.

Yup. Well said.