Has there been such devastation, not of their faith but of their humanity, that they are no longer capable of marriage?

Positivism and the De-mystification of Sex:

Roger Scruton

The difficulty with matrimony lived in a culture which is positivistically dominated is its superficiality of an experience that is on the level of the purely sensible and rational. There is no commitment of the self because there is no self, and what we are is merely an individual.