why do atheist get married?

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since atheist don't believe in god, why do they even get married.
they are not committing any sin, because they don't believe they are.
So why get marry, atheist.

and if there are atheist here, who are married, why?
you don't believe in god, anyways.

there are many legal and societal benefits to marriage.

I don't know, I'm atheist by the way, in some people's cases I would assume it is to prove your undying love for the individual in other cases social and economic gain or influences.

just out of reflexive social or familial conformity.

Legal benefits.

We're complex beings.
Besides the legal and social benefits, we follow traditions and rituals for many emotional reasons even if they don't make much sense.

Two friends of mine got "married" to the Lord of The Rings books in a hill surrounded by friends. It didn't have any religious implication, they're atheist. But they were happy to swear their love to each other and celebrate it with friends.

Maybe because they also want a special day to celebrate their love commitment to each other? I am an atheist and I want to have that special day if I find someone who loves me for who I am. However, no suits/tuxedos for me. I want the celebration to be more unique and a little less expensive.

The concept of formal marriage is 20,000 years old at the earliest, it was for a variety of purposes (both economic and social) as well as love. Religion didn't get involved until the last ten thousand years at least. In my opinion, if two people love each other, they have the decision to get married.

Because last names get boring after a while.

Sometimes you need four toaster ovens.

This hahaha

My sister and her husband are atheists but there were legal benefits to getting married. So they did it at a courthouse, they didn't have some big ceremony, they had a party later with family and friends and there was no god-talk allowed.

I'm not athiest but agnostic and would get married for the vows(Being in love and together forever....all that good stuff) only and I do like the formality of it all.

I am agnostic + married. Good thing, as we lived together for 2 years before marriage. LOL.

I suppose we got married, because it’s the “socially accepted” way to raise a family (and having a family was very important to my wife).

BTW – I’ve rejected the entire concept on sin as it has never made sense to me (particularly, the way in which the “rules of sin” are determined). As such, I simply aspire to live by the Golden Rule. It’s both simple and unambiguous.

Because marrying is simply about two people, agreeing to each other? There is no god involved into it basically.

Sure you can invent some fairytale stuff and add it to the marriation, so that you can involve your personnel religion into it, but partnership is known all around the world, so it is not linked to any specific god. Or do you ask buddhists, why they marry, when they dont believe in a christian god? ^^

These christian marriage is not as old, as people tell you, in midiage for large parts it was usual to do the fastening, a celebrity in which two person declared to be linked to each other for some time (They could choose themselve, so as example: "For a year and a day..." (That was often for very young ones.), "Until love ends..." (Very pragmatic... ^^), "Until death departs us..." (Very romantic, mostly older people...) and with the normal village folk as witnesses. Christianity simply declared, that marriage would be linked with them, because they wanted to control the peoples habbits, to control the people.

My partner an I are marrying, simply because after 14 years, we both feel the certainity, that sharing the rest of our lives with each other is the best that can ever happen to us. People around here say: Marrying is wright, when being bound to one person for the rest of your life doesnt scare you, but makes you endlessly happy. And this feeling we want to share before our family and friends, and tell the whole real existing world how we fell about each other.

Maybe it may seem weird for you, but in my country a church marriage is only additional. So you need to marry by law, that it is official. You can additional marry by religion if you want and thats ok and most religious people simply do the marry by law in private and celebrate the religious marriation with friends and family. But marrying religious is private stuff, that only is between you and your church, so if you would only marry religious but not additionial in law, you are not officially married. Our government is a government of the real existing world, so it doesnt care about if you are married before the eyes of any god, if you want to marry, you need to do it official. So marrying is simply about marrying in law. If you want to have an additional muslimic, christian, jewish, wedding-celebration noones care. If you want you can even additional marry in the name of Pele, god of football, but marriation basicly is about marriation in law.

Asking me why we marry, when we dont believe in god is as if you would ask us, how we can marry, when we dont believe in Micky Mouse. Simply: Either Micky Mouse nor god is involved in marriage, and the question itself has no sense at all. XD What you do additional as private party in your private church is your stuff.

Because I have no other choice for cohabiting unless I move abroad and cut all ties with homeland.

I've been asking myself the same question recently. I don't think I want to get married. I mean, I might one day, but it's definitely not a priority. I just don't see the point right now.