Polygamy: A Biblical Practice

I've grown weary of heterosexist Christians who perpetuate the canard that eliminating discrimination against homosexuals will bring the polygamists on. Polygamy was brought to us by the Bible. Deal with it.

By the way, I have nothing against polygamists, and I don't believe polygamy is morally problematic -- I've yet to hear a persuasive case that polygamy is morally problematic. My point in this video is twofold: first, discrimination against homosexuals isn't a rampart against polygamy (the two have nothing to do with one another); second, polygamy is as biblical as Passover and wild bears mauling children who tease a prophet.

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[chirectomy]

@Discern4

Just found another verse:

"Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. "

1 Kings 15:5.

[chirectomy]

@Discern4

Just found another verse:

"Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. "

1 Kings 15:5.

[chirectomy]

@Discern4

Sorry about the typo. I also could swear I once read a verse the the old testament that said God "blessed David with many wives and concubines" but I just can't find it again. Of course all this pales in comparison to god condoning what amounts to the rape of captured women in Deuteronomy 21:10-14.

[Discern4]

@chirectomy Good find! Though the Samuel scripture is 2 Sam 12:8. I also like ProfMTH's point about the 10 virgins. I can't believe it never clicked with me that the parable highly implies polygamy.

[chirectomy]

For those who will use the predictable argument that just because something is in scripture does not mean god condones it, keep these verses in mind:

Exodus 21:10 and Deuteronomy 21:15 - Inheritance laws for multiple wives in the old law.

2 Samuel 2:18 - Says god would have given David even more wives if he had prayed for them

God never any biblical patriarch for polygamy. Rather, he condemned David for adultery with Bathsheba and Solomon for marrying wives who worshiped other gods.

[ARTEHISTORIAISLAM]

@tadpoleposition I'm not questioning the prophet, on the contrary I am saying that you can be fair. AND THAT POLYGAMY IS NATURAL.



[ARTEHISTORIAISLAM]

@tadpoleposition Marry one, when one is not fair but of course that can be fair it was the prophet Muhammed.

[ARTEHISTORIAISLAM]

@ProfMTH Polygamy is natural and biblical, because it is forbidden for a man to have a plural marriage?



[ProfMTH]

@ARTEHISTORIAISLAM " If polygamy is biblical, because there are evil Christians idiots if fully biblical polygamy? ignorance? or cultural imposition of the Catholic Church?"

I haven't a clue what you're asking here.

[ARTEHISTORIAISLAM]

@ProfMTH If polygamy is biblical, because there are evil Christians idiots if fully biblical polygamy? ignorance? or cultural imposition of the Catholic Church?