What I learned as an educated evangelical monogamist was that polygamist were lustful corrupt perverts. Little did I know we were the pervs. Please allow me to explain, in my system, sexual morality was taught but it was very weak. You see if you failed in your sexual morality you could repent and move on, no consequence. In the polygyny system if you fail in your morality you have bound yourself to that person for life. The consequence being you become responsible for that person and answer to God for them some day. It gives serious weight to the phrase " their is no such thing as casual sex". In this system you cannot exploit without conseqence. When sex is realized as a covenant it is a sobering fact. Covenant sex does not allow for casual sex. I know this sounds serious, but God was serious about sexual purity. I am not saying if you are mogomous you are a pervert. what I am saying is that polygyny teaches us about true morality and the consequences if broken. Now I am an educated evangelical polygynist with a stronger sense of morality. Did this knowledge effect you the same way?
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Tlaloc
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Well said. I cant say it affected me directly as a lot of my young life was direct experience in the fatal flaws and perverseness of ardent monogamists who sought to destroy marriage in general, there was no coming to realization, only scripture confirming what I already thought about the seriousness of sex.
The church actively sought to break up my parents because they where 'too young' and wound up creating and escalating a disaster that spiraled out of control.
The church actively sought to break up my parents because they where 'too young' and wound up creating and escalating a disaster that spiraled out of control.
Memphis Dwight
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The ardent monogamists have so much energy saved up because they are not
directing it into the path in which it was intended: family.
God instills in each a drive to procreate unless one has the gift of celibacy. And what the militant monogamists do is to heap trouble on top of trouble with their practices. They keep pushing back the marriage age for their daughters and they forbid others to be involved in plural marriages. And even in their own marriages they have 1.7 children. So they are frustrated and have to much energy left over at the end of the day and that messes with their sleep making them more irritable during the waking hours.
Instead of seeing their problem and correcting , they continue down the same road of self destruction. And not only do they keep on down that road, they want to force all of the world down the westernized monogamy-only highway.
See, God recommends, that in order that we don't engage in deviant practices, that we be married and expend our energies in making babies and raising families. But the monogamists limit themselves and others in this area. That is why sodomy and pedophilia is on the rise.
directing it into the path in which it was intended: family.
God instills in each a drive to procreate unless one has the gift of celibacy. And what the militant monogamists do is to heap trouble on top of trouble with their practices. They keep pushing back the marriage age for their daughters and they forbid others to be involved in plural marriages. And even in their own marriages they have 1.7 children. So they are frustrated and have to much energy left over at the end of the day and that messes with their sleep making them more irritable during the waking hours.
Instead of seeing their problem and correcting , they continue down the same road of self destruction. And not only do they keep on down that road, they want to force all of the world down the westernized monogamy-only highway.
See, God recommends, that in order that we don't engage in deviant practices, that we be married and expend our energies in making babies and raising families. But the monogamists limit themselves and others in this area. That is why sodomy and pedophilia is on the rise.