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Poly Practised Elsewhere

Verifyveritas76 said:
Consider this one Officially Pinned!

Thanks for all your hard work @Frank S
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You are welcome. And thanks for the honor!:)

Yes, it has been a bit of work - for every link you see posted, there are hundreds of useless or inappropriate links that require assessment and I reject. It does help that I'm a speed reader, but I'm also doing something I enjoy - that makes it not a hardship.
 
Frank S said:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/026537888400100102
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'My husband, who is not polygamous, has refused to marry me in Church as this would hinder him from becoming polygamous. The Vicar told me that I cannot be baptised and confirmed unless we have a wedding in Church. Since he has completely refused a Church wedding (he also says it is too expensive) does it mean that I shall never be baptised?
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So the RCC used and uses baptism as a cudgel to take control of marriage from the family and community. If you don't have a 'church wedding', you can't join the church, get baptized, or take communion. No wonder Paul called prohibiting marriage a doctrine of demons.
 
rockfox said:
So the RCC used and uses baptism as a cudgel to take control of marriage from the family and community. If you don't have a 'church wedding', you can't join the church, get baptized, or take communion. No wonder Paul called prohibiting marriage a doctrine of demons.
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So get this, in Africa there are three, count them 3!, different competing forms of marriage: church marriage, legal marriage, and cultural marriage. Which reflects the different spheres of authority vying for control: church, state, and family.
 
Frank S said:
https://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=51901&dir=2015/june/15
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They [group of women] stood by their view reasoning that polygamy is legal in many African countries and they said divorces in those countries as well as the spread of HIV/AIDS have reduced.
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Frank S said:
https://lionoftheblogosphere.wordpr...n-shortage-can-be-turned-into-a-man-shortage/
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One-man one-woman, plus the custom for women to be matched to a man who is one to two years older, and that means that there are more marriageable women than there are marriageable men. And marriageable means being able to contribute to raising a huge number of children. It doesn’t mean having an alpha personality or huge muscles and ripped abs. Hasidic girls aren’t allowed to watch secular television, so they don’t even know they are supposed to be attracted to that!
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Frank S said:
I think there is something to be said for not allowing young minds to be formed by feeding on such images and ideas.
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More than a little something. Scientists have pinned down a number of problems with children staring at screens, and that doesn't even take into account the propaganda.
 
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