A ... Revelation From God
Is it mind control, exposure from a very early age to life's parameters in the guise of religious indoctrination, or is it another version of the Stockholm Syndrome? How can it be that women endowed with even a modicum of intelligence could accede to the demeaning and sexist situation known as multiple marriage partners; polygamy.
Polygamy is unlawful in Canada, though it exists unlawfully in some communities as a respected contract between a man and his wives. Within the Muslim community it functions as a permissible adjunct to Islamic values and principles. Along with many other pernicious cultural values.
And among other fundamentalist religious communities such as the Mormon-affliliated Fundamentalist church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, where in their British Columbia location in Bountiful, B.C., men take multiple wives and father dozens of children. The women are all too often complicit in their degrading conditions.
At least in Islam it is permissible for a man to take more than one wife only if he can prove he has the economic wherewithal to provide adequately for his wives and their offspring. Despite which there are Muslim immigrants living in Canada in polygamous relationships and who depend upon welfare to support them.
In the religious community of Bountiful and others like it around the United States, many in the community live in poverty. The mainstream Mormon community no longer recognizes polygamy, but the breakaway sects do. This is obviously the case because self-serving men choose to prey on impressionable women taught since childhood to be compliant.
This is where 'alpha' males posing as devoutly religious leaders of their little communes inspire their commune members to the belief that this is how the Almighty has constructed the acceptable mores of the faithful. Plural marriages are a gift from God and all his faithful ascend into a privileged position when they value that gift and accept the conditions whereby a man shares his sexual favours with a harem of women, all 'wives'.
Young girls are often inducted into their plural-marriage positions at the age of 15 or 17, and accept this as inevitable, as the way in which they will live out their lives in piety and gratitude to be enabled to do God's will. They are content to delude themselves with the belief that their marriage represents what they speak of as a "celestial marriage".
It does not appear to concern them, because they cannot conceive of it, that they are being manipulated by a tyrannical overseer of women and children. They do not appear to see their lives as representing a long series of abuses.
They consider themselves to have been blessed to be taken into bondage as a sex slave and a bearer of children by men who envision themselves entitled to enjoy the services of nubile, accepting girls and women for whom the future has been circumscribed through the dictates of this peculiar, male-serving religion.
For a 15-year-old girl to be introduced to a 40-year-old man with multiple wives, a half-hour before a marriage ceremony that would fasten her future to theirs in perpetuity is thought of by this compliant girls and women as "...a revelation from God". And may God help them all.
Polygamy is unlawful in Canada, though it exists unlawfully in some communities as a respected contract between a man and his wives. Within the Muslim community it functions as a permissible adjunct to Islamic values and principles. Along with many other pernicious cultural values.
And among other fundamentalist religious communities such as the Mormon-affliliated Fundamentalist church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, where in their British Columbia location in Bountiful, B.C., men take multiple wives and father dozens of children. The women are all too often complicit in their degrading conditions.
At least in Islam it is permissible for a man to take more than one wife only if he can prove he has the economic wherewithal to provide adequately for his wives and their offspring. Despite which there are Muslim immigrants living in Canada in polygamous relationships and who depend upon welfare to support them.
In the religious community of Bountiful and others like it around the United States, many in the community live in poverty. The mainstream Mormon community no longer recognizes polygamy, but the breakaway sects do. This is obviously the case because self-serving men choose to prey on impressionable women taught since childhood to be compliant.
This is where 'alpha' males posing as devoutly religious leaders of their little communes inspire their commune members to the belief that this is how the Almighty has constructed the acceptable mores of the faithful. Plural marriages are a gift from God and all his faithful ascend into a privileged position when they value that gift and accept the conditions whereby a man shares his sexual favours with a harem of women, all 'wives'.
Young girls are often inducted into their plural-marriage positions at the age of 15 or 17, and accept this as inevitable, as the way in which they will live out their lives in piety and gratitude to be enabled to do God's will. They are content to delude themselves with the belief that their marriage represents what they speak of as a "celestial marriage".
It does not appear to concern them, because they cannot conceive of it, that they are being manipulated by a tyrannical overseer of women and children. They do not appear to see their lives as representing a long series of abuses.
They consider themselves to have been blessed to be taken into bondage as a sex slave and a bearer of children by men who envision themselves entitled to enjoy the services of nubile, accepting girls and women for whom the future has been circumscribed through the dictates of this peculiar, male-serving religion.
For a 15-year-old girl to be introduced to a 40-year-old man with multiple wives, a half-hour before a marriage ceremony that would fasten her future to theirs in perpetuity is thought of by this compliant girls and women as "...a revelation from God". And may God help them all.
Labels: Family, Social-Cultural Deviations, societal failures
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