EFFECTS OF SECULARIZATION ON THE SACREDNESS OF MARRIAGE

Abstract

Human life has been greatly influenced by the power of change, thus giving rise for man’s insatiable demand for knowledge and more recently the struggle for power for a firmer control of his world and the affairs. Secularism of marriage has since been one of the adverse effects of human quest for reinventing his world. The paper focused on the effect of secularization on marriage by way of introducing dangerous practices that undermined the sacredness of marriage. The secularization of marriage has dismantled the wall between religion and the state, causing for the devaluation of the core Christian teachings on the sacredness of marriage. The methodology of the research was both qualitative and quantitative. The paper also recommended workable approaches in the promotion of Christian marital etiquette to uphold the sacredness of marriage.