Posted on 02/23/2014 1:15:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Syria is submerged in civil war. The Sunni and the Shiia of Iraq are renewing their 1300-year-old conflict. Libyan rebels have shut down the nations oil industry. Egypts Muslim Brotherhood has been suppressed and is resorting to terrorism. Pakistan is a cauldron of violence and assassinations. In short, the Muslim world, as usual, is at war with itself.
This is not a contemporary phenomenon. Islam has been attacking its neighbors ever since the Prophet Mohammed received the Koran from the Angel Gabriel in the 7th century. Within 50 years of his death, Muslim armies had conquered the known world from Spain to Afghanistan. The Moguls invaded India, setting off a conflict that persists today. The Ottoman Empire besieged Europe for hundreds of years before its collapse in the 20th century. As historian Samuel Huntington has written, Islam has always had bloody borders.
Is there any explanation for this? Is it temperament or history? Is it the inevitable fight over scarce resources? Or, as Muslim cultures would insist, is it because Islam has always been surrounded by hostile neighbors?
In my book, Marriage and Civilization, I offer a novel explanation as to why Islam has always been at war with itself and others. It is because Islam it is the only major religious culture that embraces polygamy.
Polygamy? What does that have to do with anything? Am I suggesting that because some minor sheik outside Baghdad takes two wives, two young Muslim brothers in Massachusetts feel compelled to blow up the Boston Marathon?
Well, yes. In any human society there are approximately the same number of men and women. Under monogamy, which limits each man to one wife, everyone gets a fair chance to marry. When powerful and successful men are allowed to take more than one wife, however, as they are in a polygamous society, this creates a pool of unsuccessful men at the bottom of society who are constantly in conflict with the system.
The history of Islam has been one continuous story of rebel groups off in the desert and deciding that the religion being practiced by the authorities and their harems back in the cities is not the true Islam. They come crashing back upon the palaces, overthrowing the leaders (no Ottoman Sultan ever died of natural causes) and establishing a new regime that is just like the old one, where powerful are allowed to take multiple wives.
The Prophet Muhammad had a novel solution to this problem. Go and conquer neighboring societies and requisition their women. If you die in the process, the reward will be even greater 72 virgins waiting for you in heaven! Jihad has been a clever and effective way of redirecting the hostilities of the bachelor herd that polygamy inevitably produces.
The fruits of polygamy are visible all over the Middle East. Because women are always in short supply, families can charge a bride price to any man who wants to marry their daughter. Because daughters are now worth money, they must be veiled and sequestered so they dont run off with some callow youth. Older men desperate for wives push down into younger and younger cohorts of the population. Marriages between 35-year-old men and 13-year-old girls become common. (Muhammads last wife was age six.)
But the main product of polygamy is a population of angry young men who are ripe recruits for terrorism. The Koran supposedly limits a man to four wives but in countries where there are vast disparities of wealth this is routinely violated. Osama bin Ladens father, a successful Saudi businessman, had 22 wives and 54 children. The unbalance between unmarried men and the available women in Saudi Arabia is the highest in the world. Is it any wonder that 15 of the 19 September 11th hijackers were Saudi nationals?
Ann Coulter once suggested that we would cure Muslim violence by converting the Islamic world to Christianity. This is not as far-fetched as it sounds. Christianitys long enforcement of monogamous marriage has obviously played a critical role in establishing the more peaceful civilization of the West. The same can be said for China and India, where the vast majority adhere to monogamy. None of these cultures is plagued with the endless internal violence and outward aggression of Islam.
Converting the Muslim world to Christianity may be out of the question, but persuading it to give up polygamy on the grounds that it creates an inherently unstable society is a task that the rest of the world might be willing to undertake.
“It is disconcerting when our children alert us to the true facts of this crucial event in Mormon history after watching an episode of South Park. The discovery that the creators of South Park place a higher value on historical authenticity than do the Brethren creates spiritual shock-waves from which some members never recover. And may I state the obvious here? This faith-shaking disparity between what the missionaries are trained to teach, and what the world already knows about our spiritual heritage, can hardly be blamed upon those members who accidentally stumble upon it, or on their children, or on the creators of South Park; the burden of responsibility for the misrepresentation rests firmly upon the shoulders of the Brethren, who allowed, and apparently encouraged it to be introduced into LDS popular culture. It is a sin of commission no less. Furthermore it is most distasteful to suggest, as some do, that because the sin was committed by the Brethren, it is authorised by Jesus Christ, unless of course they are suggesting that the Saviour is a deceiver.” (Chris Ralphs 1st Open Letter)
It's not the women who civilize men. It is the system, which tells every man that he can have a woman of his own, who will bear him children of his own, if he works hard and becomes adequately prosperous enough to support a wife.
This is broken both in the Muslim world, AND in our "inner cities". In the inner cities, we still officially have monogamy, but the "men at the bottom" see that women prefer to be married to Uncle Sugar than to some MacDonalds manager, and prefer to spawn children of muscular thugs.
The results are similar: angry, alienated men prone to violence.
Actually, the practice of women being financially supported by multiple men in exchange for sex is very widespread. It has existed in every society and every age, including the present-day United States.
The system of marrying the girls young, and to cousins, also reduces female infanticide -- it's less of an investment in the support of the girl, the investment stays in the clan, and after a young age it's the husband's responsibility to keep her fed and clothed.
The daughters can only marry somebody of equal or greater wealth and status. Otherwise the family loses face. But it's OK for a male to marry a beautiful woman of lower wealth, rather than a plain woman of his own class.
Lucifer never received a body and never will, he is an evil Lying spirit or should we be more correct he is a substance who will lie and deceive many....
Now what else have I hear is a substance???
Feb 15, 1845 - Sidney Rigdon asks, in the LDS newspaper MESSENGER AND ADVOCATE Did the Lord ever tell any people that sleeping with their neighbors wives and daughters had any thing to do with preparing the way of the Saviors coming[?] Ridgons daughter, Nancy, had been approached by Joseph Smith and asked to become a secret plural wife. This caused a rift between Rigdon and Smith.
Feb 15, 1885 The SALT LAKE TRIBUNE editorial: The essential principle of Mormonism is not polygamy at all, but the ambition of an ecclesiastical hierarchy to wield sovereignty; to rule the souls and lives of its subjects with absolute authority, unrestrained by any civil power.
Only through celestial marriage can one find the strait way, the narrow path. Eternal life cannot be had in any other way. (Deseret News, Church Section, November 12, 1977, Salt Lake City, Utah)
In 1831 Joey Smith tried to force 12 year old Mary Elizabeth Rollins to have sex with him.
Smith Tells 12-Year-Old Mary Elizabeth that God Has Commanded Him in a Vision to Marry Her and that a Sword-Bearing Angel Threatened to Kill Him if She Didnt Obey (Sound Familiar?)
Authors Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery report Smiths snag line as follows in Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale SmithProphets Wife, Elect Lady, Polygamys Foe:
Mary Elizabeth Rollins claimed that Joseph had a private conversation with her in 1831; she was 12 years old.
She said Joseph told me about his great vision concerning me. He said I was the first woman God commanded him to take as a plural wife. [letter from Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner to Emeline B. Wells, summer 1905, LDS Archives]
Although she did not become a plural wife of Josephs until a number of years later, that early conversation planted a seed that Mary Elizabeth long rememered.
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GOD only knows!
Truth
Lucifer never received a body and never will, he is an evil Lying spirit or should we be more correct he is a substance who will lie and deceive many....
Now what else have I hear is a substance???
“Satan is a person with a spirit body, in form like that of all other men.”
(Apostle Joseph F Merrill, LDS Conference Report, April 1949, p. 27)
You would believe anything negative about the LDS your stories as related is a fabrication of hearsay and half truths where ever you pick it up from, I suggest in the future you get your gossips from a more realizable source that is more accurate...
if you were an honorable person but than an honorable person would not even go there look for trutn...
We are brethren and sisters of Satan as well as of Jesus. It may be startling doctrine to many to say this; but Satan is our brother. Jesus is our brother. We are the children of God. God begot us in the spirit in the eternal worlds.
(Apostle George Q. Cannon, March 11th, 1894, Collected Discourses, compiled by Brian Stuy, vol. 4, p. 23)
What I posted was the published beliefs of the Mormons not my own words..
That was from a LDS Conference..
You need to admonish your SLC leaders if you don’t agree...
Resty: Lucifer never received a body and never will,
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Neither will the Mormon holy ghost...
Mormon scripture declares, “The father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the son also, but the holy ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the holy ghost could not dwell in us” (Doctrines & Covenants 130:22)
Meanwhile although the Mormon god has a body because it was once a man according to Mormon lore...
The God the Father of the Christian Bible has no body but is Spirit.. John 4:24
and God the Son, the LORD Jesus Christ is the Second Person of the Trinity and took on the flesh of a human body when He was conceived in Mary by the Holy Ghost..
No sex act or father with flesh involved...
Neither does you Trinity substance have a body?
The Heavenly Father and the Son Jesus Christ has a body of Flesh and Bone and the Holy Ghost and comforter is sent from Heavenly Father
John 14
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
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