Tricked into "Eternal Polygamy"

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After 1890 women were no longer required to become polygamists, but what about the celestial kingdom? Will the millions of monogamous wives in the LDS Church be compelled to become polygamists in the celestial kingdom? The current Church position concerning polygamy in the afterlife is not clear. If I were an active Latter-day Saint wife and mother, I would want to know.</div> <bR> <div> All through history religion has been tricking women into believing God made them inferior to men, and that their lot in life is to be oppressed. This thinking goes back to the Garden of Eden when chauvinistic priests concluded that Eve seduced Adam, compelling him to "eat of the forbidden fruit" which resulted in "original sin." The early Christian priests were obsessed with the idea of "original sin" and believed it was passed on to the rest of humanity via sexual intercourse.</div> <bR> <div> Esoteric Mormonism takes a different view. The forbidden fruit was actually sexual intercourse. It was necessary for Adam and Eve to break a lesser law in order to fulfill a greater law, multiply and replenish. In Mormonism, the ultimate sin is failure to keep the greater law. </div> <bR> <div> The Garden of Eden story is found in Genesis, the first of the first five books of the Old Testament called the Torah, or the Pentateuch. Hasidic Jews, Muslims and ultra-pious Christians, including Mormons, believe the first five books were written by Moses and are the explicit words of God. However, biblical scholars doubt Moses is the true author. In fact, they are not even sure Moses ever existed. Furthermore, there is compelling evidence that the Torah was written by more than one writer. (See <I>Moses, A Life</I>, by Jonathan Kirsch.)</div> <bR> <div> The stories exalting Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, Esau, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David and Solomon appear in the First Five Books. These men are all biblical icons around which Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Mormonism derive most of their authority and doctrines. Yet, archeology has found nothing to prove these biblical characters actually existed. In fact, when it comes to empirical proof, Moses and David, for example, are as illusive as Odysseus, Gilgamish, Jason of the Argonauts, and King Arthur. </div> <div> But that doesn’t mean they didn’t exist, or that the characterization of these biblical icons wasn’t patterned after the exploits of real live persons. And even then, if they are mythical icons, it doesn’t take away from the metaphorical truths surrounding them. But if we go one step further, neither does it sanctify the oppression and discrimination priests, popes and prophets have foreordained against women. </div> <bR> <div> Ever since mankind discovered, or invented gods as an explanation for unexplained phenomenon, man has been putting words in God’s mouth, so much so that the true God must be shaking his head in disgust.</div> <bR> <div> Much of Muslim and Christian interpretations of the Bible that demean the role of women are based on presumptions and speculative conclusions and not direct commandments, with the exception of Mormonism. Nor have biblical scholars concluded that the Bible is Revelation. Yet, over eons of time, the arbitrary and capricious interpretations of men claiming to be inspired by God have created untold misery for millions of women. For example, during the middle ages hundreds of women were tortured by Christian priests until they confessed to being witches, then they were burned at the stake. (See <I>Woman, Church & State, </I>by Matilda Joslyn Gage, "The Original Expose’ of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex."also <I>Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven, </I>chapter XIX)</div> <bR> <div> Early Christian priests from the Fifth to the Twelfth Century - St. Augustine to Thomas Aquinas - implanted the idea that virginity and celibacy was more godly than marriage. They concluded that sex during marriage was a sin, sex for pleasure a mortal sin, sex for procreation a pardonable sin - but under any circumstance, a sin. </div> <bR> <div> All sorts of papal restrictions were invented to suppress women. She was a temptress and her menstruating blood was poison. Nearly every sin imaginable could be traced to the transgressions of Eve. The only woman exempt from the moral carnage imposed on women, it seems, was Mary, mother of Jesus.</div> <bR> <div> The Mormons take a more natural look at Mary’s conception. Esoteric Mormonism teaches that because sexual intercourse is a glorious union, God the Father came down and had sexual intercourse with Mary, who was only age 13. This Mormon version of the "immaculate conception" tends to justify incest among Mormon polygamists. If God can have sex with his daughter, why can’t they?</div> <div> Because sex, even during marriage, was a sin, the priests had to come up with a plausible explanation to free Mary from the stigma of "original sin" - the solution was "Immaculate Conception."</div> <bR> <div> The concept of "immaculate conception" actually refers to the birth of Mary, not Jesus. The priests could not have Jesus born of a woman who was conceived in sin. Therefore, both Mary, Mother of Jesus, and Jesus, were conceived by some immaculate means other than "lewd, animalistic sexual intercourse."</div> <bR> <div> The early Christians eventually came around to the notion that marital sex for the sole purpose of procreation was forgivable, nevertheless, still a sin. Along with sex for the purpose of begetting children, came the admonition against contraceptives. On one hand the early Christians condemned sexual intercourse, and on the other hand made it a grievous sin to prevent conception during coitus.</div> <bR> <div> St. Augustine and Aquinas went into great detail in their efforts to control coitus and marriage, even so far as to dictate what sexual position married couples should adopt during coitus. The "missionary position" was the only approved position, what ever that is? (<I>Eunuchs For The Kingdom of Heaven) </I>I thought I was rather worldly, but apparently not. I had no idea there was a sexual position credited to missionaries. Possibly someone could send me an email and enlighten me.</div> <bR> <div> Augustine and Aquinas thought it was more serious to engage in erotic sexual positions with one’s wife, or use contraceptives, than it was to have sex with one’s mother. It seems to me, that for men who were committed celibates, and renown "haters of marriage and pleasure," they knew an awful lot about sex. But in spite of Catholicism’s celebration of virginity and celibacy, even with God’s help, the Church has been no match for Mother Nature. The sex urge has cut through all the pompous, pious verbiage and resulted in hundreds of celibate priests molesting little boys and girls, and most of these pious priests still retain their standing in the priesthood. Celibate priests turned child molesters are classic examples of what happens when churches, intellectuals and law makers mess with the sex drive - it usually manifests itself in perverted ways.</div> <bR> <div> The Catholics say there will be pleasure without sex in paradise. The Mormons, in essence, say it will be sex that makes paradise (celestial kingdom) pleasurable. </div> <bR> <div> Joseph Smith received a revelation commanding him to take numerous wives. Brigham Young and Orson Pratt used the Bible to support Joseph’s revelation. Brigham and Orson taught that plural marriage was an indispensable prerequisite to exaltation (the Catholic paradise) and that it’s primary purpose was to raise up a righteous seed. This implies that the purpose of sexual intercourse is procreation. But Mormon doctrines restricting sexual intercourse to procreation are nonexistent, except for Musser’s "Law of Chastity," which coincidentally is almost word for word echoing Catholicism.</div> <bR> <div> Mormons, unlike the Catholics, do not address the subject of sex and pleasure. There is no admonition against sex for pleasure. Even though the subject of coitus is not directly addressed, coitus is very much implied and encouraged in the realm of marriage. Marriage was so essential to Mormonism that Brigham Young lowered the age of marriage for females to age12, but of course, with parental consent. This exploitation of children may be explained by a salacious axiom that surfaced during Tom Green’s bigamy trial: "If they’re old enough to bleed, they’re old enough to breed."</div> <bR> <div> So here we have two religions that profess to be God’s plenipotentiary authority on earth, two religions who purport to control the exaltation of its members by defining the dos and don’ts of sex habits. One religion teaches that humans are separated from the animals only when they repudiate coitus. The other religion holds that the more wives and children you have, the greater you are. Both sides subordinate women. With one she is a temptress, with the other, a brood mare. Both religions have messed with the sex drive, and as a result, both religions have members who pervert or abuse the natural sex drive, all to the detriment of women and children. Both religions are so intent upon profiting from the sex drive that they completely ignore the philosophical and biological approach to the sex drive – nature’s way of perpetuating the species. </div> <bR> <div> God gave us an ego and the ability to think. He gave us the will power to control our desires. That’s how we differ from the animals, not by repudiating sex, but by controlling our sexual desires for the betterment of society. Philosophers have been telling us for hundreds of years that sex is like a fire and if not controlled can be as destructive as it is creative.</div> <bR> <div> Polygamy and the promise of an exaltation serves two purposes, both of which are unmistakably linked to eroticism, either consciously or subliminal. It gives vent to sexual proclivities and lures converts into the Mormon net. </div> <bR> <div> LDS women are no longer required to become plural wives in this life, but what about the next. As I said at the beginning of this essay, the LDS Church position is still unclear. If I were an LDS lady I would want to know, because there are a lot of LDS men looking forward to a throne in the celestial kingdom surrounded by groveling wives, and unlike the young Muslim fundamentalists, they don’t have to turn themselves into human bombs. All young Mormon men have to do to be exalted is let the priesthood do all the thinking.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arrus BT" >Contact me at:  </FONT><A HREF="mailto:webmaster@polygamyversuscommonsense.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:webmaster@polygamyversuscommonsen"><U>webmaster@polygamyversuscommonsense.com</U></A> .                                                                            <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arrus BT" ><B>Copyright 2004 John R. Llewellyn and Power Link ISP, Inc. 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