Will Civilization Survive if it Rewrites What Marriage and Family Means?
23 December 2007 dans All God's Advice
Dear God,
I’m a bit confused about something Mike Huckabee said lately:
“There’s never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived. So there is a sense in which, you know, it’s one thing to say if people want to live a different way, that’s their business.”
Well, how does that work exactly?
Laws defining marriage are rewritten and reinterpreted constantly. But our civilization is surviving, so that must not be what he means. Then again, he might not be saying that civilization will immediately cease to exist, but that it will eventually end or change. But of course civilization will end or change some day, nothing lasts for ever.
And what does “rewriting” have to do with “living a different way.” If people change the way they live, civilization won’t survive? The way people live changes all the time too, but our civilization is surviving.
What exactly does Mick Huckabee mean?
-Bertoldt
Dear Bertoldt,
You are reading too much into it. Why can’t you just listen to what he’s saying?
It is one thing to say “if people want to live a different way, that’s their business.” What is your basis for disagreeing? Is it two things to say that? Three things?
Mike Huckabee quite simply means that, whenever all the members of a civilization write the words “what marriage and family means” two times, that civilization will immediately cease to exist, the instant the last person completes the last pen stroke on the “s” in “means.”
That sounds pretty scary, until you realize that there are thousands of babies born every day, and the civilization can’t rewrite anything until those babies learn to read and write. By that time, there will be more babies around that can’t write yet. So our civilization isn’t likely to rewrite “what marriage and family means” any time soon.
So, you know, no worries.
-God