Zoomers are shacking up.

They are not getting married, but they are moving in together.

According to the Census Bureau, more than 11% of Americans aged 18 to 24 lived with a romantic

partner who is not a spouse last year.

That is the highest share of young Americans doing that sort of thing ever.

And there are all sorts of reasons as to why they're doing it.

To save money, convenience, pleasure.

But I suspect the main reason that they are shacking up at a higher rate than ever before

is that society tells them there's nothing wrong with it.

There's no reason not to.

Which has me thinking about how things used to be.

I'm not thinking about the 1950s.

I'm not even thinking about the 1850s.

I am thinking a little further back all the way to the 1050s.

All the way back to a now little known group by the name of the Albegencians.

If you've never heard of the Albegencians, it was this strange religious group that had

a lot of bizarre ideas.

They believed that the world was not created by an all loving God and that sin and death

pervaded the world because of man's abusive, free will and Adam and Eve and all the rest

of it.

They believed that two principles, two mutually opposing principles created the world.

The good principle and the bad principle.

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