From a Christian perspective...

**Megas Methuselah** · 02-03-2010, 21:51

Aw common, I know you buggers relish the thought of having multiple wives.

**Centurion1** · 02-03-2010, 22:20

^ what you mean dual naggers. no i do not.

**Aemilius Paulus** · 02-04-2010, 17:47

Originally Posted by Megas Methuselah

Aw common, I know you buggers relish the thought of having multiple wives.

No, there is a trick to many wives. You want to have a whole harem, and not just a Muslim-style marriage with around three wives (if you are somewhat wealthy). You see, when you have few wives, it is a deadly game of jealousy, favouritism, and hate, between the wives as well as between you and the wives. But when you have a harem, the concubines of yours receive insufficent attention individually to kindle such conflict.

**Lemur** · 02-04-2010, 18:15

Religion? To the Backroom, away!

**Kadagar_AV** · 02-04-2010, 18:30

From the Bible: Matthew 19 : 4-6 (KJV)

19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
19:6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore common sence hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

I can agree to this if you replace "god" with "common sence".

I love my GF and want nothing else. She completes me...

**Rhyfelwyr** · 02-04-2010, 20:28

Christians shouldn't marry at all.

Now get up and dance like a Shaker!

**Aemilius Paulus** · 02-05-2010, 22:50

Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr

Christians shouldn't marry at all.

Now get up and dance like a Shaker!

Oh yeah, I would love for that to happen to Christians... Because you know what? According to some National geographic articles from the 1980s, the Shakers were almost utterly dead and gone as a movement. No marriage, no coitus, no children. And of course, without children to brainwash from a tender age, no one else would be silly enough to join the cult...

Alright, that was half-joking and rather mean of me, but the truth holds. Procreation is the main reason why fundamentalists and Religious Right are so alive and well in the US. They breed like rabbits, to put it bluntly. They value children. They take them as a blessing from God (those people must be saints...). Much unlike their secular counterparts, especially the educated Northerners, who suffer birthrates below the replacement level. And so they win, with demographics. I know Idiocracy and The Marching Morons are supposed to be wrong from a scientific perspective, but I am still uneasy...

**Rhyfelwyr** · 02-06-2010, 00:33

Religion tends to flip between revivals and periods of decline, so I don't think it's a case of one side breeding the other out. A lot of the time these revivals barely reach beyond a generation or two. The whole 'born again' Christianity we associate with the US today was dead in the water before the 1970's when the Christian Right really emerged as a political force. I think there's a similar process happening in Britain today, with a decline in the established churches, but a rise in small fundamentalist Baptist type churches.

Demographics don't really come into it much, unless you are talking about the fringe with the Quiverfull movement or something like that.

**Cute Wolf** · 02-05-2010, 06:33

Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV

I can agree to this if you replace "god" with "common sence".

I love my GF and want nothing else. She completes me...

May I ask for something? This was from "Christian" perspective, as Meth said before... And God is not a common sense. In Christian values, they are united by God (and God can use their common sense of course).

**Megas Methuselah** · 02-05-2010, 07:45

??? Yeah, I'm sorry, Cute Wolf, but I completely cannot understand what you just wrote.

**Cute Wolf** · 02-05-2010, 09:55

Umm... sorry for my bad english Meth

... I just want to said that God is not a common sense. But he can use everyone's "common sense" to fulfill his will.

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 02-04-2010, 18:28

Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus

No, there is a trick to many wives. You want to have a whole harem, and not just a Muslim-style marriage with around three wives (if you are somewhat wealthy). You see, when you have few wives, it is a deadly game of jealousy, favouritism, and hate, between the wives as well as between you and the wives. But when you have a harem, the concubines of yours receive insufficent attention individually to kindle such conflict.

I don't reckon I could roll with a harem. I need an emotional relationship.

Maybe I could roll with a wife and a harem....then she'd need a harem....

Nah... couldn't roll with that either.