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That it offends our highly culture-specific ideas, like eating horse meat. Also, something about feminism. Polygamy has been practiced all over the world for a
by slurgfest 14y ago
That it offends our highly culture-specific ideas, like eating horse meat. Also, something about feminism.
Polygamy has been practiced all over the world for a long time and is of course also something which is often mentioned casually in the Bible, so there is really no argument other than that it is not traditional in our mainstream culture and we have corporately decided we don't like it.
- sigzero 14y agoThey also pretty much end up badly in the Bible. God never endorses it and warns (Solomon for example) against it.
- slurgfest 14y agoAbraham did great, with God's help. Hence "Abrahamic religions." So did Jacob. Hence "Israel". Maybe Solomon just overdid it by the numbers? And polygamy does not ever show up with a commandment against it, or a label of "abomination." God did see fit to forbid shrimp and mixed-fiber fabrics and tattoos, however, so polygamy would have to be a really tiny thing to slip under that threshold, at worst.
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