Post by zarahan on Jul 17, 2011 23:55:48 GMT -5
African food production and agriculture practices cause polygamy, with corresponding results in Black American family structure, claim assorted biodiversity proponents. "Tropical agriculture" needed all these extra hands, and women provided most of the agricultural labor force, polygamy took hold in African culture, and is thus reflected in Black American culture with its high OOW rates today.
Assorted evidence put forward includes:
A--- The anthropologists Jack Goody and Ester Boserup on how continental differences in raising food affected family structure. Boserup noted in 1970:
"Africa is the region of female farming par excellence. In many African tribes, nearly all the tasks connected with food production continue to be left to women."
B--- and evidence by James Q. Wilson:{quote):
"In Europe, where animal-drawn plows were used to farm rich land, intensive agriculture made monogamy important… In these places, men did much of the agricultural work …
In much of Africa, by contrast, farming was done by handheld hoes used to work small plots of land that were often rather infertile. Women were widely used to do the hoeing and carry in the produce.
Many husbands found that they could use extra wives to wield even more hoes, and so marrying several women made sense economically… the conditions they describe may have had important consequences for the kinds of families that had to endure the travails of slavery in the Western Hemisphere."
____________________________________________________________________________________
Claims of "important consequences" for black
Americans however are weak on several counts, as
are claims for the absence of monogamy in Africa:
1- Heavy female participation in African agriculture
on tough soils is documented, but is this the PRIMARY
cause for polygamy? Many scholars point to other factors
such as the high child mortality rate, and whether there
was a surplus of females in the populations. Others add
more reasons.
Books such as Demography: Analysis
and Synthesis, (2005, Caselli et al,) see
the chief causes of polygamy as sexual
adn reproductive related rather than
production/economic oriented. Polygamy
they hold allows a man to maximize his
offspring, or engage in sexual activity
forbidden by certain cultures when a
wife is pregnant or nursing a child.
They also note strong political considerations
as reasons for polygamy- such as local
elites consolidating power and exhibiting
prestige over the less powerful.
Polygamy also serves to cement alliances
between tribes, clans and bloodlines.
In short, while extra female labor to farm may
play a part, the main causes of polygamy in Africa may have
comparatively little to do with "tropical farming
practices."
-------------------------------------------------------------------
2-- Furthermore women in both cold-climate
Europe and Asia have long had heavy and burdensome
involvement in agriculture, contradicting attempts
to portray African women as some sort of unique
beasts of burden.
European women have long had heavy
involvement in European agriculture for
centuries, including milking animals, spinning
wool, brewing ale, or turning out en
masse for the harvests. One study of
1400 England for example found them
doing heavy labor, including weeding,
mowing, carrying grain, breaking stone
for road repair, and driving plough oxen.
(M. Mate, Women in medieval English
society). Likewise in Asia, Chinese or Korean
women were valued and exploited for
their ability to engage in the
back-breaking work of rice cultivation
which required stoop labor to tend crops
by hand, even though the plow was in
wide use. It all depends what time
periods are looked at. In European or
Asiatic grain agriculture seasonal cycles
such as planting and harvest time saw
plenty of female labor deployed. The
growth of mechanization in other eras
was to also have its effects.
Data from China, even in the modern era AFTER decades
of progressive communist rule, still shows women as heavy
agricultural beasts of burden, when men monopolizing
less demanding agricultural operations.
"where machinery was used it was monopolised by men, and that this frequently made nonsense of the supposed distinction between 'heavy' men's work and 'light' women's work. For example, in one instance, Wolf's assistant came across three people working the fields. One was a man whose task it was to turn the switch to a water pump on and off. As a technician, he earned 10.5 work-points a day. The other two were women in their thirties 'wh were rushing back and forth ditching and damming to keep the water moving evenly through the fields. although the evening was cool, they were sweating with the effort it took to move the heavy waterlogged earth onto the banks of the ditches. They were unskilled workers and earned 6.5 workpoints for their day's labor'. Other reports suggest that through the 1980s and 1990s, in villages in which agricukture continued to be collectively managed, divisions of labour and inequalities in remuneration, such as those cited by Wolf, persisted.. Observing the situation at the chicken farm, however, the researcher felt that the women's work was far from beibg lighter than the men's. Men were responsible for carrying bags of feed on their shoulders, and for using a crushing machine to break up the feed. Meanwhile, it was the women's task to mix the feed and give it to the chickens and collect the eggs. Each day each woman had to collect 1,680 eggs, a task which the researcher estimated woud involve them bending down some 280 times a day."
--Women's work in rural China: change and continuity in an era of reform. Tamara Jacka. 1997
In short, African women have never been the
unique continental beasts of burden
some make them out to be.
-------------------------------------------------------------
3- The claim of "carryover" to Black
Americans is dubious. IN fact Black Americans
in some eras, have posted BETTER monogamy rates
than US Whites, and LOWER rates of illegitimacy
than supposed pace-setting Nordic European
whites in both the 19th and 20th centuries.
If these "tropical" practices were the cause of
US Black family instability, why did black folk for
over 50 years after slavery post relatively
low out-of-wedlock rates, and post
higher marriage rates than whites?
For a period of 50 years, from 1890 to 1940,
every US census showed that blacks had higher
marriage rates and lower divorce rates
than whites. As late as 1960 black
illegitimacy stood at only 19%, LOWER
than that of today's whites, and LOWER
than that of urbanized northern European
whites during the 19th century- like the
white Irish (posting sometimes a 50%
illegitimacy rate in certain US cities, or
white Vienna (46%), or white Stockholm
(49%). In ultra-white Sweden at the start
of the 20th century barely half of
Swedish women married and around
one-sixth of children were born out of
wedlock. (Burns and Scott 1994)
--Ailsa Burns, Cath Scott. 1994.
Mother-headed families and why they
have increased. Routledge. P. 61-84
Fast forwarding to the 20th century, white Northern
European patterns are unimpressive. By the year
2000, out of wedlock births had reached 53%
of all births- a steep rise from a mere
10% illegitimacy rate in mid century. (A
population history of the United States
By Herbert S. Klein, Cambridge
University Press. 2004. p. 216) Nor are
supposedly more virtuous white people
of other "Nordic" nations any better. In
the early 1980s illegitimacy rates were
on the order of 45% in Iceland and
Sweden and 40% in Denmark. (Report
on Immigrant populations and
demographic development in the
member states of the Council of Europe.
Rinus Penninx, Council of Europe.
1984.) White Australia in the 1980s
weighed in at (35%), twice as high as
US black rates as late as 1965.
In short, when the historical data is examined,
supposedly "more polygamous" blacks posted a
better showing than whites on several counts.
-------------------------------------------------------------
4-- Assorted claims re "tropical patterns"
fail to explain how non tropical Arabs, Jews
and other "Middle Easterners practiced polygamy
for millennia and how some still practice it
today, and fail to explain how these peoples
who strictly subordinated their women from
exposure re agricultural work (such as the
Muslim "purdah" practices) STILL engaged in widespread
polygamy.
If the heavy involvement of women
in farm work is the cause, why do the
Semitic Arabs, who try to keep their
women in strict subordination, and who
are not out in the fields like the African
women, have widespread polygamy, even today in the 21st century?
This should not be the case under assorted
biodiversity "evolutionary" claims.
-------------------------------------------------------------
5- Europe itself has hardly been a shining
example of monogamy in action historically. Numerous
European peoples practiced polygamy, or its close
equivalent, practices suppressed by a religion
itself derived from Semitic peoples who practiced
polygamy. And ironically, under the new religion,
Europeans themselves continued to practice polygamy.
In is known for example that the
Emperor Justinian had to legilate against
polygamy in his domains in 600AD, an
action that should have been hardly
necessary in supposed areas of
Caucasoid monogamous bliss. And
polygamous practices in all but name
was for example is well documented in
white Europe. Among the Celtic peoples
for example: quote:
"In Ireland .. there were various forms
of marriage. Ten classes were recognized
in the law tract in marriage, of which
only nine are explained. The first three
are regular marriages.. The others are
temporary unions. Comparing a
thirteenth-century Welsh list to its
eighth-century Irish counterpart, T.M.
Charles-Edwards remarks that the
"existence of the Welsh list suggests that
in many respects the Welsh law of
women resembled the Irish until the
gradual progress of Christian ideas on
marriage caused a fundamental
transformation" However,
Charles-Edwards continues, "even in the
thirteenth century, this transformation
was still very incomplete.."
"Marriage and divorce, especially within
the several recognized temporary unions,
were relatively simple matters, and
divorce did not automatically reflect
badly on either party.. And this ""ease
with which marital union was concluded
and the almost equal ease with which it
was dissolved," continues RR Davies,
goes a long way in explaining the
"apparently cavalier attitude toward
so-called illegitimate offspring." To
complicate matters still further, there is
substantial evidence to suggest that
concubinage was legally recognized and
that there may well have been
arrangements which we would now term
polygamy and polyandry."
--C.W. Sullivan. 1996. The Mabinogi: a
book of essays (Garland Medieval
Casebooks) .
and
Polygamy was legal among the Celts,
with multiple wives recognized. Brehon
[Irish law- pre-English conquest 17th
Century) law for example -quote-
"stipulated that any injury sustained by
a second wife in the first day of coming
into the household of an established first
wife was not a convictable offence."
and
"There were ten classifications of
Celtic marriage, each a specific form of
contract, including one that was marriage
for "a year and a day."
--Walking the maze: the enduring
presence of Celtic spirit By Loren
Cruden. 1998
----------------------------------------------------------------
6-- Africa has always had monogamy, long
before the arrival of Europeans, and polygamy has
been a clear part of European and Asian culture until
very recent times. In the middle East, it is alive and
well among Semitic peoples.
Polygamy was more common
in Africa than in Europe, but monogamy
also has a long history in Africa even
before blacks were forcible transported
to the US, and before any significant
influence from Europe. Of the 31
captives of the famous Amistad slave
ship for example, 15 were married, and
only 1 was polygamous, and monogamy
is common in various parts of Africa.
See <i>Slavery in North Carolina,
1748-1775. by Marvin L. Michael Kay,
Lorin Lee Cary- pg 160.</i>
Asia has had polygamy for a long time
parallel with monogamy, along with
things like multiple concubinage,
practiced in China. And it was not until
1945 that polygamy was finally
abolished in Japan. And people like Jews
practiced polygamy for centuries as
documented in the Bible and
anthropological studies, and for Arabs
and those who follow Islam, polygamy is
permissible even today.
Indeed while monogamy has been more
prevalent in Europe, polygamy has
always been a part of European culture
until very recent times. Indeed, one of
the things Christianity did for Europe
was to stamp out and discourage
polygamy. Ironically, there is a long
tradition of polygamy in white
Christianity (see <i>After polygamy was
made a sin: the social history of
Christian polygamy- By John
Cairncross</i>), and polygamy is
documented as common in white Russia
in various eras. Ironically Christianity
itself, based on the religion of a Semitic
people from the sub-tropical Middle
East, not cold climate areas, was adopted
in white Europe, providing the "rules of
morality" that helped suppress polygamy
(among other things) by Europeans in
many regions as Cairncross notes.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
7-- Several examples show the continuing
influence of polygamy in European culture. One of
the most powerful European religions,
that of Mormonism, not only practiced polygamy until
comparatively recent times, but in its heavenly paradise,
polygamy will be practices and recognized. Ironically even
Nordic Aryan leader Adolf Hitler at times also had a
favorable opinion of polygamy.
Mormon leader Joseph Smith had numerous wives, one only 14
years old, and referred to "spiritual wifery" that would be
"sealed" throughout eternity. Polygamyis part and parcel of
the Mormon paradise.
--D. Kirkland. 2008. Mormons and Muslims: A Case of Matching Fingerprints
Other references:
Charles W. Penrose, "Mormon" Doctrine Plain and Simple,
or Leaves from the Tree of Life, 1897, Salt Lake City, p.66
("In the case of a man marrying a wife in the everlasting covenant
who dies while he continues in the flesh and marries another by the
same divine law, each wife will come forth in her order and enter
with him into his glory.");
Joseph Fielding Smith, Bruce R. McConkie, ed., Doctrines of
Salvation, 1956, vol. 2, p. 67
(Smith, who was sealed to two different women, stated,
"[M]y wives will be mine in the eternity.");
Harold B. Lee, Deseret News 1974 Church Almanac, p. 17
("My lovely Joan was sent to me: So Joan joins Fern/That
three might be, more fitted for eternity./'O Heavenly
Father, my thanks to thee'.").
And a mere 70 or so years ago, "Aryan" Nazi German
itself was encouraging polygamy. QUOTE:
"Although monogamy was the official
marriage from of Nazi Germany, the
society in effect, turned toward
polygamy because Aryan males were
encouraged to beget Aryan children with
as many racially qualified women as
possible- in and out of wedlock."
--Young-Bruehl (2002) The anatomy
of prejudices).
According to The Fuherer in his own words"
"Let's remember that after the Thirty
Years War polygamy was tolerated, so
that it was thanks to the illegitimate
child that the nations recovered its
strength."
And lamenting those Rhine maidens that have
never known man, the Fuherer further argues:
"As long as we have in Germany two and a half
million women vowed to celibacy, we shall be
forbidden to despise the child born out of wedlock."
--L. Pine, 1999, Nazi family Policy
Curiously, according to one book, a number of white Mormons
following their practice of prayers for dead and
eternal marriage have interceded for Hitler and
Eva Braun: --quote--
"Adding insult to injury, zealous Mormons
also stood proxy for Adolf Hitler's and Eva
Braun's baptisms and eternal marriage. If the
prospect of meeting Hitler as a god in eternity
rankles the sensitivities of most non-Mormons,
imagine the impact of such an idea on a Jew."
( --LaTayne Scott. 2010. The Mormon Mirage: A
Former Member Looks at the Mormon Church Today)
Assorted evidence put forward includes:
A--- The anthropologists Jack Goody and Ester Boserup on how continental differences in raising food affected family structure. Boserup noted in 1970:
"Africa is the region of female farming par excellence. In many African tribes, nearly all the tasks connected with food production continue to be left to women."
B--- and evidence by James Q. Wilson:{quote):
"In Europe, where animal-drawn plows were used to farm rich land, intensive agriculture made monogamy important… In these places, men did much of the agricultural work …
In much of Africa, by contrast, farming was done by handheld hoes used to work small plots of land that were often rather infertile. Women were widely used to do the hoeing and carry in the produce.
Many husbands found that they could use extra wives to wield even more hoes, and so marrying several women made sense economically… the conditions they describe may have had important consequences for the kinds of families that had to endure the travails of slavery in the Western Hemisphere."
____________________________________________________________________________________
Claims of "important consequences" for black
Americans however are weak on several counts, as
are claims for the absence of monogamy in Africa:
1- Heavy female participation in African agriculture
on tough soils is documented, but is this the PRIMARY
cause for polygamy? Many scholars point to other factors
such as the high child mortality rate, and whether there
was a surplus of females in the populations. Others add
more reasons.
Books such as Demography: Analysis
and Synthesis, (2005, Caselli et al,) see
the chief causes of polygamy as sexual
adn reproductive related rather than
production/economic oriented. Polygamy
they hold allows a man to maximize his
offspring, or engage in sexual activity
forbidden by certain cultures when a
wife is pregnant or nursing a child.
They also note strong political considerations
as reasons for polygamy- such as local
elites consolidating power and exhibiting
prestige over the less powerful.
Polygamy also serves to cement alliances
between tribes, clans and bloodlines.
In short, while extra female labor to farm may
play a part, the main causes of polygamy in Africa may have
comparatively little to do with "tropical farming
practices."
-------------------------------------------------------------------
2-- Furthermore women in both cold-climate
Europe and Asia have long had heavy and burdensome
involvement in agriculture, contradicting attempts
to portray African women as some sort of unique
beasts of burden.
European women have long had heavy
involvement in European agriculture for
centuries, including milking animals, spinning
wool, brewing ale, or turning out en
masse for the harvests. One study of
1400 England for example found them
doing heavy labor, including weeding,
mowing, carrying grain, breaking stone
for road repair, and driving plough oxen.
(M. Mate, Women in medieval English
society). Likewise in Asia, Chinese or Korean
women were valued and exploited for
their ability to engage in the
back-breaking work of rice cultivation
which required stoop labor to tend crops
by hand, even though the plow was in
wide use. It all depends what time
periods are looked at. In European or
Asiatic grain agriculture seasonal cycles
such as planting and harvest time saw
plenty of female labor deployed. The
growth of mechanization in other eras
was to also have its effects.
Data from China, even in the modern era AFTER decades
of progressive communist rule, still shows women as heavy
agricultural beasts of burden, when men monopolizing
less demanding agricultural operations.
"where machinery was used it was monopolised by men, and that this frequently made nonsense of the supposed distinction between 'heavy' men's work and 'light' women's work. For example, in one instance, Wolf's assistant came across three people working the fields. One was a man whose task it was to turn the switch to a water pump on and off. As a technician, he earned 10.5 work-points a day. The other two were women in their thirties 'wh were rushing back and forth ditching and damming to keep the water moving evenly through the fields. although the evening was cool, they were sweating with the effort it took to move the heavy waterlogged earth onto the banks of the ditches. They were unskilled workers and earned 6.5 workpoints for their day's labor'. Other reports suggest that through the 1980s and 1990s, in villages in which agricukture continued to be collectively managed, divisions of labour and inequalities in remuneration, such as those cited by Wolf, persisted.. Observing the situation at the chicken farm, however, the researcher felt that the women's work was far from beibg lighter than the men's. Men were responsible for carrying bags of feed on their shoulders, and for using a crushing machine to break up the feed. Meanwhile, it was the women's task to mix the feed and give it to the chickens and collect the eggs. Each day each woman had to collect 1,680 eggs, a task which the researcher estimated woud involve them bending down some 280 times a day."
--Women's work in rural China: change and continuity in an era of reform. Tamara Jacka. 1997
unique continental beasts of burden
some make them out to be.
-------------------------------------------------------------
3- The claim of "carryover" to Black
Americans is dubious. IN fact Black Americans
in some eras, have posted BETTER monogamy rates
than US Whites, and LOWER rates of illegitimacy
than supposed pace-setting Nordic European
whites in both the 19th and 20th centuries.
If these "tropical" practices were the cause of
US Black family instability, why did black folk for
over 50 years after slavery post relatively
low out-of-wedlock rates, and post
higher marriage rates than whites?
For a period of 50 years, from 1890 to 1940,
every US census showed that blacks had higher
marriage rates and lower divorce rates
than whites. As late as 1960 black
illegitimacy stood at only 19%, LOWER
than that of today's whites, and LOWER
than that of urbanized northern European
whites during the 19th century- like the
white Irish (posting sometimes a 50%
illegitimacy rate in certain US cities, or
white Vienna (46%), or white Stockholm
(49%). In ultra-white Sweden at the start
of the 20th century barely half of
Swedish women married and around
one-sixth of children were born out of
wedlock. (Burns and Scott 1994)
--Ailsa Burns, Cath Scott. 1994.
Mother-headed families and why they
have increased. Routledge. P. 61-84
Fast forwarding to the 20th century, white Northern
European patterns are unimpressive. By the year
2000, out of wedlock births had reached 53%
of all births- a steep rise from a mere
10% illegitimacy rate in mid century. (A
population history of the United States
By Herbert S. Klein, Cambridge
University Press. 2004. p. 216) Nor are
supposedly more virtuous white people
of other "Nordic" nations any better. In
the early 1980s illegitimacy rates were
on the order of 45% in Iceland and
Sweden and 40% in Denmark. (Report
on Immigrant populations and
demographic development in the
member states of the Council of Europe.
Rinus Penninx, Council of Europe.
1984.) White Australia in the 1980s
weighed in at (35%), twice as high as
US black rates as late as 1965.
In short, when the historical data is examined,
supposedly "more polygamous" blacks posted a
better showing than whites on several counts.
-------------------------------------------------------------
4-- Assorted claims re "tropical patterns"
fail to explain how non tropical Arabs, Jews
and other "Middle Easterners practiced polygamy
for millennia and how some still practice it
today, and fail to explain how these peoples
who strictly subordinated their women from
exposure re agricultural work (such as the
Muslim "purdah" practices) STILL engaged in widespread
polygamy.
If the heavy involvement of women
in farm work is the cause, why do the
Semitic Arabs, who try to keep their
women in strict subordination, and who
are not out in the fields like the African
women, have widespread polygamy, even today in the 21st century?
This should not be the case under assorted
biodiversity "evolutionary" claims.
-------------------------------------------------------------
5- Europe itself has hardly been a shining
example of monogamy in action historically. Numerous
European peoples practiced polygamy, or its close
equivalent, practices suppressed by a religion
itself derived from Semitic peoples who practiced
polygamy. And ironically, under the new religion,
Europeans themselves continued to practice polygamy.
In is known for example that the
Emperor Justinian had to legilate against
polygamy in his domains in 600AD, an
action that should have been hardly
necessary in supposed areas of
Caucasoid monogamous bliss. And
polygamous practices in all but name
was for example is well documented in
white Europe. Among the Celtic peoples
for example: quote:
"In Ireland .. there were various forms
of marriage. Ten classes were recognized
in the law tract in marriage, of which
only nine are explained. The first three
are regular marriages.. The others are
temporary unions. Comparing a
thirteenth-century Welsh list to its
eighth-century Irish counterpart, T.M.
Charles-Edwards remarks that the
"existence of the Welsh list suggests that
in many respects the Welsh law of
women resembled the Irish until the
gradual progress of Christian ideas on
marriage caused a fundamental
transformation" However,
Charles-Edwards continues, "even in the
thirteenth century, this transformation
was still very incomplete.."
"Marriage and divorce, especially within
the several recognized temporary unions,
were relatively simple matters, and
divorce did not automatically reflect
badly on either party.. And this ""ease
with which marital union was concluded
and the almost equal ease with which it
was dissolved," continues RR Davies,
goes a long way in explaining the
"apparently cavalier attitude toward
so-called illegitimate offspring." To
complicate matters still further, there is
substantial evidence to suggest that
concubinage was legally recognized and
that there may well have been
arrangements which we would now term
polygamy and polyandry."
--C.W. Sullivan. 1996. The Mabinogi: a
book of essays (Garland Medieval
Casebooks) .
and
Polygamy was legal among the Celts,
with multiple wives recognized. Brehon
[Irish law- pre-English conquest 17th
Century) law for example -quote-
"stipulated that any injury sustained by
a second wife in the first day of coming
into the household of an established first
wife was not a convictable offence."
and
"There were ten classifications of
Celtic marriage, each a specific form of
contract, including one that was marriage
for "a year and a day."
--Walking the maze: the enduring
presence of Celtic spirit By Loren
Cruden. 1998
----------------------------------------------------------------
6-- Africa has always had monogamy, long
before the arrival of Europeans, and polygamy has
been a clear part of European and Asian culture until
very recent times. In the middle East, it is alive and
well among Semitic peoples.
Polygamy was more common
in Africa than in Europe, but monogamy
also has a long history in Africa even
before blacks were forcible transported
to the US, and before any significant
influence from Europe. Of the 31
captives of the famous Amistad slave
ship for example, 15 were married, and
only 1 was polygamous, and monogamy
is common in various parts of Africa.
See <i>Slavery in North Carolina,
1748-1775. by Marvin L. Michael Kay,
Lorin Lee Cary- pg 160.</i>
Asia has had polygamy for a long time
parallel with monogamy, along with
things like multiple concubinage,
practiced in China. And it was not until
1945 that polygamy was finally
abolished in Japan. And people like Jews
practiced polygamy for centuries as
documented in the Bible and
anthropological studies, and for Arabs
and those who follow Islam, polygamy is
permissible even today.
Indeed while monogamy has been more
prevalent in Europe, polygamy has
always been a part of European culture
until very recent times. Indeed, one of
the things Christianity did for Europe
was to stamp out and discourage
polygamy. Ironically, there is a long
tradition of polygamy in white
Christianity (see <i>After polygamy was
made a sin: the social history of
Christian polygamy- By John
Cairncross</i>), and polygamy is
documented as common in white Russia
in various eras. Ironically Christianity
itself, based on the religion of a Semitic
people from the sub-tropical Middle
East, not cold climate areas, was adopted
in white Europe, providing the "rules of
morality" that helped suppress polygamy
(among other things) by Europeans in
many regions as Cairncross notes.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
7-- Several examples show the continuing
influence of polygamy in European culture. One of
the most powerful European religions,
that of Mormonism, not only practiced polygamy until
comparatively recent times, but in its heavenly paradise,
polygamy will be practices and recognized. Ironically even
Nordic Aryan leader Adolf Hitler at times also had a
favorable opinion of polygamy.
Mormon leader Joseph Smith had numerous wives, one only 14
years old, and referred to "spiritual wifery" that would be
"sealed" throughout eternity. Polygamyis part and parcel of
the Mormon paradise.
:
"After death, while their husbands are creating and ruling
over planets, the women have the questionable honor of bearing
his "spirit children" for eternity. These spirit children
descend to their father's planet to inhabit bodies as mortals,
who are then ruled over by him. Mormon Doctrine states that
these celestially married men and women will live eternally
in the family unit and have spirit children, theus becoming
Eternal fathers and Eternal Mothers." A man who has multiple
wives can beget many more spirit children, making him much
more powerful. Mormon men must beget as many children with
as many wives as possible, for "their glory (in heaven) is
in proportion to the number of their wives and children" (Snowden 11)."
"After death, while their husbands are creating and ruling
over planets, the women have the questionable honor of bearing
his "spirit children" for eternity. These spirit children
descend to their father's planet to inhabit bodies as mortals,
who are then ruled over by him. Mormon Doctrine states that
these celestially married men and women will live eternally
in the family unit and have spirit children, theus becoming
Eternal fathers and Eternal Mothers." A man who has multiple
wives can beget many more spirit children, making him much
more powerful. Mormon men must beget as many children with
as many wives as possible, for "their glory (in heaven) is
in proportion to the number of their wives and children" (Snowden 11)."
Other references:
Charles W. Penrose, "Mormon" Doctrine Plain and Simple,
or Leaves from the Tree of Life, 1897, Salt Lake City, p.66
("In the case of a man marrying a wife in the everlasting covenant
who dies while he continues in the flesh and marries another by the
same divine law, each wife will come forth in her order and enter
with him into his glory.");
Joseph Fielding Smith, Bruce R. McConkie, ed., Doctrines of
Salvation, 1956, vol. 2, p. 67
(Smith, who was sealed to two different women, stated,
"[M]y wives will be mine in the eternity.");
Harold B. Lee, Deseret News 1974 Church Almanac, p. 17
("My lovely Joan was sent to me: So Joan joins Fern/That
three might be, more fitted for eternity./'O Heavenly
Father, my thanks to thee'.").
And a mere 70 or so years ago, "Aryan" Nazi German
itself was encouraging polygamy. QUOTE:
"Although monogamy was the official
marriage from of Nazi Germany, the
society in effect, turned toward
polygamy because Aryan males were
encouraged to beget Aryan children with
as many racially qualified women as
possible- in and out of wedlock."
--Young-Bruehl (2002) The anatomy
of prejudices).
According to The Fuherer in his own words"
"Let's remember that after the Thirty
Years War polygamy was tolerated, so
that it was thanks to the illegitimate
child that the nations recovered its
strength."
And lamenting those Rhine maidens that have
never known man, the Fuherer further argues:
"As long as we have in Germany two and a half
million women vowed to celibacy, we shall be
forbidden to despise the child born out of wedlock."
--L. Pine, 1999, Nazi family Policy
Curiously, according to one book, a number of white Mormons
following their practice of prayers for dead and
eternal marriage have interceded for Hitler and
Eva Braun: --quote--
"Adding insult to injury, zealous Mormons
also stood proxy for Adolf Hitler's and Eva
Braun's baptisms and eternal marriage. If the
prospect of meeting Hitler as a god in eternity
rankles the sensitivities of most non-Mormons,
imagine the impact of such an idea on a Jew."
( --LaTayne Scott. 2010. The Mormon Mirage: A
Former Member Looks at the Mormon Church Today)