How does marriage contradict atheism?

Fundies say the darndest things.

Marriage doesn't contradict disbelief in deities and it does have some legal and financial perks. I personally don't think there should be any such benefits to being married, but how I think things should be and how they currently are aren't really aligned. In the meantime, it stands to reason that, if I can make the same commitment to another individual that a believer can, there's no justification for barring my wife and I from the same entitlements.

Maybe they meant marriage as in the religious aspect of wearing white, being in a church, binding two people together as a covenant with god... Or they were just stupid.

Legal ramifications were added by religion (tithing married couples) and later manipulated by government, who is usually religious anyway (people don't want to vote for mps who don't follow their religion, etc).

the person was probably saying that marriage came from God therefore since atheist do not believe in marriage they should therefore not use marriage.

before governments came to be people were getting married by ministers or if they lived away from a big city where to register a marriage.

I guess that person was referring to the religious wedding ceremony. Some people still think of marriage as religious union before God.

In most countries marriage is a civil ceremony with a religious element masquarading as a religious event. So there is no reason for atheists not to marry unless they are not inclined to do so.

Y'all can believe anything you want, but marriage is a spiritual union which man has, over time caused to become a legal contract.

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.

That was the first marriage ceremony.

Ok, atheists, y'all can go off on this post now! Enjoy!!

Marriage is a legal relationship that afford rights and privileges to each couple. It's not all about religion.

Marriage is a legal contract securing governmental protection of property rights, financial obligation, and child custody. It has nothing to do with religion.

It isn't solely religious. My wife and I went to the court house to get married.

Funny, citing Adam and Eve as the first wedding. I'm not sure whether to laugh, cry, or invoke Poe.

Let's see. That would mean that the first wedding was about 4,000 years after the Sumerians invented glue. Several words come to mind. Intelligent isn't one of them.