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<blockquote data-quote="Percivale" data-source="post: 76029090" data-attributes="member: 302279"><p>My last post made it clear that people have a strong visceral reaction against polygamy, but some need some help fleshing out a logical argument against it. I'll see what I can do.</p><p>The first mention of polygamy in the Bible is in Genesis where Lamech, one of Cain's descendants took two wives, Adah and Zillah. He bragged about killing someone for hurting him, not exactly someone we want to imitate. Bible scholars have this law of first mention, where the first mention of something is the most significant.</p><p>When asked about divorce, Jesus quoted "he made the male and female" and "the two shall become one flesh." It seems he treated this as the formula for what marriage should be: one man and one woman for life.</p><p>Polyamorous relationships have a very high rate of breakup, which is not good for anyone, and more traditional polygamy is generally held together by an authoritarian structure.</p><p>I just learned it is illegal too. I can't help finding that funny though; I picture a policeman hearing that his married neighbor has a girlfriend and he thinks, okay not my problem, but then he hears that the guy's wife knows about it and none of them are breaking up and so now all a sudden he shows up at the door with an arrest warrant. I knew it was in illegal back in the 1800s, I was recently listening to a GK Chesterton book, 'what I saw in America' that mentions how visas at the time asked applicants if they're polygamist. To the one who posted the GK Chesterton quote on my last thread, thank you, it's a good reminder and I love Chesterton's style.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Percivale, post: 76029090, member: 302279"] My last post made it clear that people have a strong visceral reaction against polygamy, but some need some help fleshing out a logical argument against it. I'll see what I can do. The first mention of polygamy in the Bible is in Genesis where Lamech, one of Cain's descendants took two wives, Adah and Zillah. He bragged about killing someone for hurting him, not exactly someone we want to imitate. Bible scholars have this law of first mention, where the first mention of something is the most significant. When asked about divorce, Jesus quoted "he made the male and female" and "the two shall become one flesh." It seems he treated this as the formula for what marriage should be: one man and one woman for life. Polyamorous relationships have a very high rate of breakup, which is not good for anyone, and more traditional polygamy is generally held together by an authoritarian structure. I just learned it is illegal too. I can't help finding that funny though; I picture a policeman hearing that his married neighbor has a girlfriend and he thinks, okay not my problem, but then he hears that the guy's wife knows about it and none of them are breaking up and so now all a sudden he shows up at the door with an arrest warrant. I knew it was in illegal back in the 1800s, I was recently listening to a GK Chesterton book, 'what I saw in America' that mentions how visas at the time asked applicants if they're polygamist. To the one who posted the GK Chesterton quote on my last thread, thank you, it's a good reminder and I love Chesterton's style. [/QUOTE]
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