Is there a difference between the religious definition of marriage and the secular definition of marriage?

is there? I mean, when christians use it, they mean it as ';a union between man and woman and (something something) god';. but there's also the government definition of it, in which it's nothing except a piece of paper and a couple benefits. this, in which, atheists or other pagans could get married.Is there a difference between the religious definition of marriage and the secular definition of marriage?
Legally, no.





In any other sense, that is between the couple married and no one else. I personally find nothing sacred about my marriage. I wouldn't have gotten married at all if it weren't for the benefits. It really wasn't all that important to my husband and me. We didn't need it to be happy and committed.





Marriage to me : A union of two PEOPLE (no matter the gender), a promise to live and love together, to share their lives and trials and all legal benefits awarded to married coupled in [country/state].Is there a difference between the religious definition of marriage and the secular definition of marriage?
Religious marriage can occur between anyone, anytime, it is just a religious ceremony and has no official meaning. You could have a Christian marriage or an leprechaun marriage, it would make no difference.





Civil marriage is a union recognised by the state. That's what secular marriage could be defined as.
The secular union involves paperwork and fees.





The Christian union is spiritual and sacred as well as convenantal union between man and women when they swear before God an oath of lifelong loyalty and love to each other. It is patterned after Christ and the Church. It is a gift for intimate companionship, means for procreation, and a channel of sexual expression according to biblical standards.
My definition is ';a union between two people.';





And that is, a huge @ss difference.