Posted on 11/23/2014 7:48:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Ross Douthat has a thought-provoking reflection on the future of religion, both globally and in America. He says that it’s dangerous to assume that the future will look like the present, only moreso. Which Catholics in 1940 would have foreseen something as epochal as the Second Vatican Council, coming just 20 years later? Who could have anticipated that China is on track to having the largest Christian population in the world, and that Africa would be sending missionaries to the West? But here we are. Douthat calls attention to Will Saletan’s Slate piece saying that the Mormon Church has a clear theological method to change doctrine, has done so (on polygamy and other issues), and will do it on homosexuality eventually. Saletan points out that the Mormons have a history of changing doctrine to make it easier for them to get along in American society.
Douthat comes at it from a different place:
So context matters — and while I don’t know how many Mormons would frame it exactly this way, I think one way to read that context is to look at the revelation suspending polygamy and see God basically blessing a political-cultural bargain between the Latter Day Saints and the United States, in which Mormons would be granted the liberty required to thrive in return for adapting themselves to American familial norms … as adapt they did, becoming the archetype of 1950s bourgeois normality and then remaining archetypal long after that norm had ceased to meaningfully exist.
But if that bargain was real, and not only real but divinely-sanctioned, then what should pious Mormons today make of the fact that the United States now seems to be going back on the deal....
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
Given that we've spent the past 40 or 50 years proving that serial polygamy is pretty much a disaster for children, why not let them as wants to try it go back to parallel polygamy?
I say, any man who's masochistic enough to try being married to more than one woman at a time ought to be allowed to do so. At least the kids will know who their daddy is.
Why not Mormons, if Homos may?
Well, a lot of the abusive polygamists were hardline fanatic religious zealots. There is that show on TLC where the family seems to work, and the kids seem fine. *shrug*, don’t really care, as long as my opinion isn’t forced on me.
Soon muslims will be coming here in droves to marry their favorite goat. Heck , it could be female, OR MALE! Mohammaded dama boom boom could even marry MULTIPLE GOATS OF DIFFERENT SEXES! Why not throw some sheep and cows in the mix too!
The Return of Mormon Polygamy?
I didnt know it had left? ha ha.
Returned? They’ve never stopped.
if the perverts and the pigs want to have more than one spouse then they can PAY for it and not drain off taxes for "dependent" spouses...
One wife is a handful. But many????
I don’t get why any man in his right mind....
With all that is going on in this country a Mormon having more than one wife is not high on my priority list.
True dat.
professional athletes do it, just not with the piece of paper.
A relic of barbarism is what the founders of the Grand Old Party called it.
And I agree with them.
Take my wives, please...
Mormon Polygamy was for a certain time period only. I had pioneer ancestors who’s husbands died and they entered polygamy for their and their childrens survival. I think of it as the Lord’s welfare system. The need is no longer there. Similar to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. When there is a need the Lord commands polygamy; otherwise monogamy is commanded.
The LDS church is based on monogamy even in countries where polygamy is legal.
Since the LDS church is now a world-wide church with 15million members and not an American church..... there would be no difference whether the USA allowed polygamy or not.
Now, who could have anything against those pastel prairie dresses & adolescent faces all MARRIED TO THE SAME GUY!!!?
Brigham Young, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Now don’t go confusing them with FACTS!
They don’t want to hear it.
About 9 1/2 out of 10 Freepers feel it’s their duty to bash Mormons. ... and spout their ignorance of the church with great ‘authority’ and hatred.
Ignore them. Kinda like ‘don’t kick a skunk’ - indeed, feel sorry for them. After all, Wherever they go, for the rest of their lives. there they are. They’re stuck with themselves...
The only fact I would argue against is the slightly inflated 9.5 out of 10.
Remaining comments self censored.
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