RE: Ohio School Takes Down Jesus Portrait
April 5, 2013 at 10:20 pm
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2013 at 10:24 pm by Ryantology.)
(April 5, 2013 at 9:56 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Did you read my post? I SAID IN A UTOPIA, but we don't live in that,I read the whole thing. It's a bad argument.
Polygamy in its current state is male driven and sexist. And even without religion like I said, it is biologically less complicated to keep track of mates and rivals with fewer partners although males have more sperm vs women having fewer eggs. Women have more incentive to be selective.
IN A UTOPIA which does not exist, religion would never play a role in sexual habits. If consent ruled and not dogma or politics we would not be having this debate at all.
But it does, so "lets pretend" doesn't wash. In the real world polygamy is not justified by consent of females not even by the closest measure. It is an antiquated tool of male insecurity.
- You can't deny marriage rights because of the existence of religion. That's only doing what the religious do.
- Polygamy is, currently, not generally practiced in western nations and in nations steeped in western culture. You can't take an example of polygamy in Muslim or Hindu society and insist that it will play out exactly the same in the United States or Denmark. A woman living in Saudi Arabia is not much more likely to be happier or more fulfilled in life married monogamously than she would be if married polygamously. That culture has a vastly different attitude towards women than we do in the west, and that would certainly express itself through the legalization of open polygamy. You are blaming a marriage arrangement for the faults of the religions which currently allow that particular arrangement.
- The rest just seems like what you personally find objectionable to it.