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We need to have a neutral discussion about the Flat Earth theory. A neutral forum needs to be set up, where we can hear all sides and really mull the issue over, and then hopefully after that the National Academy Sciences can make a determination whether or not the earth is flat or not. Until then,...

Marcus wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 12, 2023 11:39 pm

KevinSim wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 12, 2023 11:25 pm

And that would be a real tragedy, to have a rigorously fair debate about the merits of cold fusion?

Marcus, you didn't answer my question.

He represented these texts as being in part the work of the biblical figure Abraham. A series of non-LDS Egyptologists have made plain their view that none of the material Joseph Smith produced bears any relation to an ancient Egyptian original text . So Chap, are you saying that the English Joseph...

The anti-vaccination crowd and far right members still haven't forgiven Russell Nelson for telling members to get the vaccination. I have a friend up in Seattle who left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints back in the 1980s. My friend has a lot of bizarre ideas, and in many ways his lif...

And if there is no difference in equity, why is the former illegal and the latter legal? The language of your question above implies that there cannot be a difference in equity unless there is a difference in legality. No it doesn't. Manetho was implying that polygamy shouldn't be legal because it ...

And, as you should know, power corrupts. A polygamous man always abuses his harem in some way or another. Always. If power really does always corrupt, then the problem isn't polygamy; it's patriarchy. The problem is that the husband has more power than his wife has, or wives have. If in a three-way...

As an example of the misleading nature of your cut and pasting, the rest of my post you truncated above explains my point: Marcus, it would indeed be misleading, if I had actually been talking about polyamory. My best recollection is that I didn't respond to the bolded sections because I wasn't tot...

If it really is inherently inequitable, wouldn't it be that inequitable whether the man in question is married to the second woman or not? In other words, is there some difference in equity between a man married to two women, and a man married to one woman who is also carrying on a long term affair...

Huckelberry, if there's no way to practice polygamy without some enormous evil happening, and if things would be greatly better for everyone if polygamy wasn't practiced, then polygamy is inherently wrong. If the enormous evil was just from the way certain people practiced polygamy in the past, and...

msnobody wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 7:22 pm

Marriage is meant to be a picture of Christ and the church. Polygamy would equate to whoring after other gods or idolatry. That is about all I have to say.

MsNobody, are you saying you don't want me to respond?