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2008-04-23 Southeast Asia

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Posted by ryuge 2008-04-23 05:53|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 Re: this matter and the polygamist Mormon sects

The Mormons who practice polygamy use the polygamous Old Testament patriarchs as their example, and the Muslims kept a cultural norm from before the time of Muhammad. If you take a look at these patriarchs' lives, as recorded in the Bible, every time the Bible tells about the home life of a polygamous family, there's bitterness and jealousy and a lot of pain.

Posted by mom">mom 2008-04-23 09:50|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-04-23 09:50|| Front Page Top

#2 On simple economics alone they could put forth the argument and make a valid case.............

Posted by anonymous2u 2008-04-23 09:52|| 2008-04-23 09:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Traditional polygamy also had a very determined economic reason. If men couldn't have more than one wife, then "excess" women would be left to starve, abandoned by their own families. So in that circumstance, polygamy was a humanitarian gesture.

However, even then, it was not for everybody. For a man to have more than one wife, there was a strict requirement that they be treated exactly equally, down to the button. This meant that only prosperous men could be polygamists. It was never meant for the poor, or even the middle class.

Mormon polygamy, being more recent, has a lot more clarity in its rationales. Women outnumbered men in the early days of their religion by a large degree. They were in a very barren, desolate place where everybody had to have everything rationed. A woman alone would have been a goner.

This left only two options. Either extra women would become servants, essentially slaves, to the household of a family. At the time of the US Civil War this was not thought of highly, for some reason. The other possibility was polygamy.

The problem with polygamy was that while it was usually a temporary measure, there was no protocol to abolish it, or severely limit it except in times of crisis or deprivation.

Importantly, the other form of polygamy was only for leaders, such as Brigham Young or some powerful Muslim Emir. These were political marriages. They weren't for economic reasons as much as to forge agreements and keep the peace.

The flip side of this polygamy was for leaders to swap sons, vaguely like hostages, to seal some bargain.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-04-23 10:37|| 2008-04-23 10:37|| Front Page Top

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