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The opening sentence contains a strange error. Maybe it's merely semantics:

Arranged marriage is a form of marriage in which one or both the consorts are not sentimentally engaged with the respective spouse but consent to the union for other non spiritual reasons.

In Unification Church, from 1960 to 2000 virtually all our marriages were, for spiritual reasons, arranged marriages. By "spiritual reasons" I mean a religious purpose.

Taking a literal reading of the article's opening sentence would seem to define the well-known mass marriages of the Unification Church as somehow as either (a) not being "arranged marriages" or (b) not having a "spiritual purpose".

I doubt if that was the writer's intent.