Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb....
Posted on 05/10/2008 11:06:21 AM PDT by AnalogReigns
This looks like a personal attack to me.
***I’m talking about Michal, Saul’s daughter. Michal’s husband was weeping over the loss of his wife.***
Check earlier verses and you will see that she was given to DAVID for a wife first. Then taken away from him and given to another.
David merely reclaimed his wife.
Really? More info please. Inquiring minds and all that...
Thank you!
Thank you.
Knocked up, again and again and again....
I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you...
Polygamy Ping
In those days, ALL women were property to be given to whomever.
This is HUGH! Set beebers on stune!
Truly, I am ignorant of all this. Is this from the bible, or another source? [RJ]
Good Q, RJ. Where in the "Scriptures"--Mormon or otherwise--does this NOTION come from?
It’s truly astonishing how wrong you are about that passage.
I have studied both sides. And I can tell you there is nothing good about polygamy, at least for the women.
I have read Ann Young's book about her live as Brigham Young's 19th wife.
It was hell on earth.
Did you know Brigham taught that it was wrong to live with you wife if she was old?
Those women were never treated equally. Brigham always had a favorite wife. And for the evening meals, all the wives and kids would sit at a table with plain food. Brigham and his favorite wife would sit at another table with all the succulent delicacies a person could want.
He married widows in order to con them out of their property.
He ordered men to take multiple wives even if they didn't want to.
He told them they must 'live up to their privileges'.
Women were not loved by their husbands, they became property. As one of the Apostles said, "I think no more of getting another wife than I do of buying another cow." And it wasn't peaches and cream in the world of polygamy. Wives fought with each other. A lot. They hated each other.
So the last thing that polygamy ever was, was beautiful.
Jessie L. Embry has a second book on polygamy (Millennial Press, 2007) that's in LDS stores. Mega research on polygamy is behind this and other authors' books on this topic. What's interesting is looking at Embry's research of the "average age" for when men & women got married.
According to Embry: Polygamists' marriage to first wife...average age was man was in early 20s, first wife was "late teens" (17-19). Second wife: Average age: 18 (while husband at that point was in early 30s). Third wife: Late teens (while husband at that point was in late 30s). Fourth wife: Late teens (while husband was in 30s or 40s). [Embry said 10% of her study had 2 wives; 20% had 3; 10% had 4 or more].
Notice that the average age of the "new wife" never really went up. As Embry said twice in her book: "As previously mentioned, a popular stereotype is that plural wives were older women who did not have anyone to support them." (p. 74)
So you can see that polygamist men were going after the teen-agers. Hmmmmm. (I wonder why???????????????)
So the last thing that polygamy ever was, was beautiful.
Sin, like misery, needs company.
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LDS apostle George Q. Cannon, who was an assistant to THREE (count 'em three) LDS presidents, being part of the "First Presidency," said a bit over a century ago: "The world doesn't believe in breeding, but we do."
(What's interesting when you look at fLDS publications & Web articles is which mainstream Mormons they cite...like LDS prophets Joseph Smith, John Taylor, Brigham Young and leaders like Cannon. It shows you that fundamentalist Mormonism began in the 19th century, not 20th century)
what books from woman who thought it was good did you read?
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