re: "Christians didn't invent marriage. Why do they think they can define it."

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Didn't Jesus say not to get in people's faces with your religion and to keep it in your home (Matthew 6:5-6)? I also think I remember something about politics and not being interested in it...a bit about Caesar and a coin...maybe I'm crazy.

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You're not crazy. But I'd say your reading of Matthew 6:5-6 is incorrect in that it doesn't say that the proper sphere of religion is limited to the private life. He was excoriating the public display of worship for the sake of being noticed as prideful and self-righteous. If he only taught in private and prayed in private, there would have been no need for his crucifixion as he would have posed no threat to the Romans or Jewish religious authorities.