Married at First Sight TV Show?
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I emailed Pastor Cal's church, too. I wanted to know how he reconciled the encouraging of these couples to have sex, when they haven't really decided to stay married, with his faith. I never got a response. It makes me sad the way reality shows have these Christians on who have no problem with sex outside of marriage or even act like it's expected.
I did watch the MAFS Australia one season for a little bit. It was a very different format because all of the couple were in this together and had weekly dinner parties and all. They do allow people with kids on the show. I stopped watching, though, when they actually let a couple that had been cheating on their spouses with each other stay on the show with each other as partners.
Oh, and the season you're referencing as this season was actually a previous season. A new one just started.
I think the idea is for this to be a modern day arranged marriage, and if both parties took it seriously, it could work, but so many of them don't go into it with the right outlook.
I did watch the MAFS Australia one season for a little bit. It was a very different format because all of the couple were in this together and had weekly dinner parties and all. They do allow people with kids on the show. I stopped watching, though, when they actually let a couple that had been cheating on their spouses with each other stay on the show with each other as partners.
Oh, and the season you're referencing as this season was actually a previous season. A new one just started.
I think the idea is for this to be a modern day arranged marriage, and if both parties took it seriously, it could work, but so many of them don't go into it with the right outlook.
I don't have a problem with a couple meeting the first day, getting married, and having sex that very same night. The problem is the lack of commitment. If they don't take marriage seriously, they shouldn't have the ceremony. But taking a wife then not having sex doesn't resolve the ethical issue, IMO. And if they do marry, they take on a moral obligation to render 'due benevolence' to one another. But I think the show just shows a problem-- amplified a bit-- that is typical of our culture. A lot of people go into marriage with the idea that the marriage is disposable if things 'do not work out.'
On the show, they said traditional couples date first, then marry, and usually have sex on the wedding night, but this not a traditional marriage. I heard that and thought in a lot of cultures, especially historically, the bride and groom may not have even known each other well, or even at all, before the wedding. There was still the expectation of wedding night sex. For royals in Europe, the bishop and members of the court may have escorted them to the bed chamber with a bit of ceremony.
In the link I posted earlier about the clergyman on the show, he said producers approached his older son about setting him up on the show. He said he wouldn't mind if he were the one who got to set his son up, and he said he would trust the current experts. I sure wouldn't, but I can understand him trusting himself to do so. If parents were involved in choosing a spouse, it would be less crazy.
That bothers me, too. The guy who had the baby mamma kept talking about people praying for him, wanted his wife to lead him in a Bible study, etc. The one young pastor who was apparently a long-time friend tried to persuade him of the importance of keeping the marriage covenant, the one 'character' on the show who seemed to take this very seriously aside from maybe the bride of the man with the baby momma.
I don't think they legally get married, either, like in the US show. The Australian show seemed trashier from the clips I saw.
On the show, they said traditional couples date first, then marry, and usually have sex on the wedding night, but this not a traditional marriage. I heard that and thought in a lot of cultures, especially historically, the bride and groom may not have even known each other well, or even at all, before the wedding. There was still the expectation of wedding night sex. For royals in Europe, the bishop and members of the court may have escorted them to the bed chamber with a bit of ceremony.
In the link I posted earlier about the clergyman on the show, he said producers approached his older son about setting him up on the show. He said he wouldn't mind if he were the one who got to set his son up, and he said he would trust the current experts. I sure wouldn't, but I can understand him trusting himself to do so. If parents were involved in choosing a spouse, it would be less crazy.
That bothers me, too. The guy who had the baby mamma kept talking about people praying for him, wanted his wife to lead him in a Bible study, etc. The one young pastor who was apparently a long-time friend tried to persuade him of the importance of keeping the marriage covenant, the one 'character' on the show who seemed to take this very seriously aside from maybe the bride of the man with the baby momma.
I don't think they legally get married, either, like in the US show. The Australian show seemed trashier from the clips I saw.
They went through ceremonies, but if I recall correctly, I heard on a clip I saw or read they were not legally binding.
If I am not mistaken, that says something about the 'candidates' on the show, that they are willing to go through a non-legally binding marriage. And for the later series, they are willing to go on the show where a theme on the show has been cheating and swapping partners.
On the American show, everyone is supposed to be signing up for marriage for life, but if they have seen the show and read the press about it, they should know that the matchmakers set people up with partners who aren't all that dedicated to marriage, sometimes with sexually immoral pasts, angry and hard to get along with people, people their partners do not find physically attracted, people into the occult, and that the divorce rates of participants on the show are much higher than the general population.
If I am not mistaken, that says something about the 'candidates' on the show, that they are willing to go through a non-legally binding marriage. And for the later series, they are willing to go on the show where a theme on the show has been cheating and swapping partners.
On the American show, everyone is supposed to be signing up for marriage for life, but if they have seen the show and read the press about it, they should know that the matchmakers set people up with partners who aren't all that dedicated to marriage, sometimes with sexually immoral pasts, angry and hard to get along with people, people their partners do not find physically attracted, people into the occult, and that the divorce rates of participants on the show are much higher than the general population.
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