Polygamy

[Caid Ivik]

Well, Jesus always talked about parents as one man and one woman, conjoined with soul as well as body. Muslims returned to polygamy, with having maximally four wives, but also with adultery equal to murder. In fact, nowadays christians accept divorces and have usually two or three partners for life, just because of adultery. And many times one of them loves both women, children as well. What do you think? Would permission (or at least a decriminalisation) of limited polygamy solve some of family problems?

[Babylon]

I think that as long as a 'family' can support it self, there shouldn't be any limitations in how it is build up. One big happy family. All your own decision, you're not hurting anyone with it, are you?

[Egeides]

There's this problem about women's rights. With polygamy, their rights often go down. Polygamy should go for women too where it is accepted but, for unknown reasons, it's not the case.

[Nyarlathotep]

With family problems you mean divorces ?

If so, yes, I think it might reduce the divorces (might bring up an interesting conversation :))

[Acriku]

Discarding the issue of recreation, could polygamy include one wife and many husbands?

[Babylon]

Any number of men or women IMO

[Nyarlathotep]

Discarding the issue of recreation, could polygamy include one wife and many husbands?

Yes. Why would you call it differently when it involves more men then women ? Same as when either a male or female cheats, it's still cheating isn't it ?

[Tio_Holtzmann]

tis polyandry when one woman has loadsa husbands, but i think the effect is pretty much the same....... ???

[Acriku]

Yes. Why would you call it differently when it involves more men then women ? Same as when either a male or female cheats, it's still cheating isn't it ?

Well, when people refer to polygamy, they almost entirely refer to men with many wives.

[Navaros]

utterly disgusting of you, Caid. you call yourself "Christian" yet you use this site to promote polygamy. just another of the many hypocrites on this site who claim to be "Christian" but really have no regard at all for God's Will and proactively make posts to promote evil.

[ordos45]

Isn't it hypocritical to not consider oneself a hypocrite? After all, I've yet to meet a human being, or read of one aside from Jesus Christ, who was not being hypocritical at some point. But I digress away from the main topic of polygamy...

Polygamy is something I'm opposed to. I think it should be two partners, husband and wife. Not one husband and five wives, or one wife and three husbands. Or a line marriage or something of the like with all the men and women in a line marrying each other, an ultimate form of polygamy.

[Tio_Holtzmann]

fielding a question about polygamy does not mean he supports polygamy, nav, calm down.

[Babylon]

/ignore Navaros

[Caid Ivik]

It's not a question of morale, but of logic. Today's liberals yell to support senseless same-gender marriages, thus causing demographical shrinking of our civilisation. If state would allow more wives in legal treaty, we would have so big growth of population as muslim countries! We christians can remain in this dualistic classic, it has some poesy inside, but why should secular law consider it as a crime? It is more acceptable than having one legal ignored wife and two or three concubines.

[Babylon]

senseless same-gender marriages

Senseless for procreation, not senseless because of love. Senseless to say such a thing as you just did.

[Caid Ivik]

State enlaws and secures institution of marriage to ensure population growth as well as their basic education as citizens. Say me, how can a homo birth a child? Of course, there are also many normal paires, where one of them can't have children, but this problem would be easily solved by polygamy! I think now only sociologically. Promoting homosexuality is a demographical suicide, polygamy is a way to retrieve the numbers. You know how Israel became a big nation from one family in Egypt...

[Nyarlathotep]

I think very man and woman should be able to decide whatever he/she wants for a relation. I don't think anyone should be told who or what to love/get a relationship with. That's absurd.

If you would be told to marry a woman you dislike (for whatever reason) you wouldn't want to would you ?

[number6]

The problem with polygamy, in my opinion, is that women (and men I suppose) can be very jealous creatures. I have enough trouble with one woman as far as making sure I don't forget to get flowers on valentines day or some other such feelings rubbish. Can you imagine having to handle the emotions of more than one woman? After being married for over 10 years I can say from experience one wife is enough. Don't get me wrong I love my wife and all, but some of the things that goes on in a woman's head is still a mystery to me.

[Nyarlathotep]

but some of the things that goes on in a woman's head is still a mystery to me.

That goes for most men my friend ;D

[Babylon]

State enlaws and secures institution of marriage to ensure population growth as well as their basic education as citizens. Say me, how can a homo birth a child?

As I said, it's a bad thing for procreation.

Of course, there are also many normal paires, where one of them can't have children, but this problem would be easily solved by polygamy!

Why should it be solved the world has a positive birth/deceased rate. And if we start caring more for 3rd world countries it would rise even more. We have 6 billion people, do we really need more?

I think now only sociologically. Promoting homosexuality is a demographical suicide, polygamy is a way to retrieve the numbers. You know how Israel became a big nation from one family in Egypt...

I'm not saying everyone should become gay. That's not even possible. But once again why shouldn't two guys or girls marry (or 3 guys and 2 girls as expample). As long as everyone is happy.

[Dante]

Who wants more population anyway? We've got too much as it is! If the population were to drop a little it would be a very good thing.

Personally I think that relationships should be decided by those in them with no interference from government, religion, or any other external force. This includes polygamy, polyandry, homosexuality (duh), etc. Why should we force ourselves into other people's business?

[nemafakei]

Polygamy just means multiple marriages, hence polyandry is redundant in conjunction with it.

Personally, I am very much against polygamy. The primary concern is for any children - any instabilities within the parental cluster (and the more people, the more ways this can happen by far) affect the wellbeing of offspring (and there will probably be more of them, too, which is not a good thing in this world). Plus the fact that polygamy may encourage more unfaithfulness and general promiscuity - already shockingly common problems.

[Anathema]

Polygamy is also inpracticale because there aren't enough woman for every guy to get more then one of them, since homosexuality occurs almost equally among men as much as women. In oriental countries they legalised polygamy centuries ago because many men died in wars and there weren't enough men left to go around, so they had to be shared.

[SurlyPIG]

Polygamy is scientifically illogical. Millions of years of evolution have given us a perfect balance of male and female offspring, so the logically productive family unit is 1:1. I don't see why laws should encourage otherwise.

That's not to say I think it should be banned in practice though. What people do behind closed doors is their own business.

[Acriku]

ACE, are you suggesting that there are no animal species that engage in procreational activities with multiple partners in a lifetime? If a species needed it, polygamy would save it because it only takes one male to impregnate many women.