Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of Heaven among men. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman Empire. That empire was founded on the banks of the Tiber by wandering brigands. When these robbers founded the city of Rome, it was evident to them that their success in attaining a balance of power with their neighbours, depended upon introducing females into their body politic, so they stole them from the Sabines, who were near neighbours. The scarcity of women gave existence to laws restricting one wife to one man. Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a holy sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers.
Brigham Young, 6 July 1862, Journal of Discourses 9:322.
Young’s history of Rome and the Roman Empire is unrecognized by historians; Young made it up as a way to support the unsupportable polygamist system invented by Joseph Smith to cover for his serial adultery.
See my article on God’s View of Polygamy.
2 comments:
Dear Mr. Chattfield,
I see you haven't posted here in awhile. Perhaps you've ran out of steam. I think that Robert Boylan has answered most, if not all, your arguements.
Mr. Robinson,
I haven't had much time to post for various reasons. I have a lot to work up but I need time.
And, no, NO ONE has answered any of my arguments with facts.
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