Astonishing! It seems you're confusing Mohammed's behavior with that of Joseph Smith.
If Joseph Smith was a "sexual pervert" for practicing polygyny; are Moses, Abraham, Jacob, David, and all the other biblical prophetic figures who ALSO practiced polygyny "sexual perverts" as well?
What about God? Was he also a "sexual pervert" for GIVING David his wives and for describing himself as the husband of TWO women?
Here you are pontificating morality and yet appear to be totally ignorant of the origins of monogamy! Just because monogamy is the CURRENT marital norm doesn't mean it always was such. You obviously don't know fully 88% of all human societies have been polygamous, including the Jews (and the Jewish and Samaritan societies where Jesus and the early Christians were raised); and it is only in the past two centuries that monogamy has triumphed over polygamy.
Here's some things to consider: the Romans were monogamous; the Jews were polygynous. The Bible NOWHERE condemns polygamy as an institution (the Timothy and Titus exhortions were specifically addressed to Roman converts) and the Bible itself approves of polygamy SIX times.
I can provide the passages to any who dispute it.
Thank you. I couldn't have said that better myself.
I do not disagree that there was polygamy in The Old Testament. But that is the differance, its in the old Testament. Those things changed in the New Testament with the birth of Jesus. Read what Jesus says about marriage. We would really have a differant society if we lived the way they do in the Old Testament.
I never thought I would see a defense of polygamy on FR.