What is desirable for me as a woman, to marry a man who is already married or share my husband? What kind of heaven is that for the first wife or the next ones?
Well you see, according to Coggins, you just do not understand, God's ways are not your, you are not spiritually mature because the spiritually mature LDS have no issue with polygamy. And he tell me I have pride and hubris. The posts he makes above are so full of nonsensical a priori assumptions one hardly knows where to begin.
A couple things though for Coggins.
1: You are wrong. About 20% -25% of LDS practiced plural marriage. Get your facts straight is you expect anyone to respect your comments that LDS apologetics have dealt well with all the criticisms.
2: The historical record on polygamy issues starting with Joseph and through the 19th century is abundant and not lacking. Every time you make this specious claim, once again, your credibility drops. I think maybe you have told youself this long enough that maybe you do believe it. It is however abundantly false.
3: You have no right to determine what in the JoD was opinion and what was not anymore then anyone can tell you what you know and don't know. BY taught AG CLEARLY and not ambiguously. How dare you presume to tell him he did not know what he meant. It is clear he did and he believed it and required it as part of the endowment at the St George Temple. You may convince yourself that these strange and uncomfortable teachings where mere aberrations and speculations and whimsical. Fine for you. But it is just not the case at all. This is why I have difficulty taking LDS apologetics seriously. Simple dismissals of very real and difficult issues serves to weaken the defense. Why not deal with it head on?
4: You are not more spiritually mature then others that are questioning things like plural marriage. It may well be the God is leading such persons to have such questions because the things they questions ARE not true and were wrong. If you forcefully tell me I have no right to tell you what you and do not know then you have no right to tell another that they are wrong in where they think personal revelation may be leading them. Pot and kettle dude.