Polygamy – Polygyny – Polyandry & Monogamy vs Marriage
I should understand these things better… BUT I am a DYNOSAUR. I am so old fashioned that I cannot possibly catch up.You see I(“we” – Alida and Murray) have been married for 40 years now. In this odd world that I work and live in we are dinosaurs. When I tell someone the anniversary date – they stop and applaud.
I caught the words of a super model/artist/pop star/singer – Carla Bruni – which made me curious as to what the writer was referring to. Carla sated that, “I’m monogamous from time to time – but I prefer polygamy and polyandry.”
Believe me Carla’s life and mine are millions of miles away from each other – there is no interest in either of us for the other.
Her statement is not bone rattling at all in this present world until you consider that she could become the next Wife of the President of France, Nicholas Sarkozy.
At risk of a Church Blog becoming another gossip rag – or worse yet being searched and found out on a Google Search – and then judged “Prudish, Old Fashioned, Dynosaurish…” – I enter the discussion – THERE IS SOMETHING TERRIBLY WRONG HERE with the PICTURE!To Help You Understand… Wikipedia states the following…
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The term polygamy (many marriages in late Greek) is used in related ways in social anthropology, sociobiology, and sociology. Polygamy can be defined as any "form of marriage in which a person has more than one spouse."
In social anthropology, polygamy is the practice of marriage to more than one spouse simultaneously. Historically, polygamy has been practiced as polygyny (one man having more than one wife), or as polyandry (one woman having more than one husband), or, less commonly as "polygamy" (one person having many wives and many husbands at the same time). In contrast monogamy is the practice of each person having only one spouse. Like monogamy, the term is often used in a de facto sense, applying regardless of whether the relationships are recognized by the state (see marriage for a discussion on the extent to which states can and do recognize potentially and actually polygamous forms as valid).
In sociobiology, polygamy is used in a broad sense to mean any form of multiple mating. In a narrower sense, used by zoologists, polygamy includes a pair bond, perhaps temporary. ~…end quote.
Yes it is a “form of marriage” in many parts of the world. But not in the Christian World. Marriage is still considered to be where one man marries one woman… quaint but still true.
Now as all good State Leaders will do… they “Nicholas & Carla” will likely “get married”… you know – like in a church with a minister…for the whole world to see what her dress is like… for all the TV cameras to focus on… to then listen closely to his and her words… spoken tenderly at the church altar…
HOLD ON JUST A MINUTE… they will stand in front of a Representative of God and ask God to bless them? That is where I flipped out. That is so DUMB that few will see the DUMBNESS of it all. God blessing this kind of stuff!!!?
Hold on tight… I know I am ranting at this point…
Nicholas met her just a few days after his divorce from his second wife – who didn’t like the lime light. Carla has been “previously been linked to singer Mick Jagger, guitarist Eric Clapton and business tycoon Donald Trump.”
One article I read classified Carla as “Arm Candy”.
Fast forward the scenes before you. Grandma Carla in her old age sitting with her bright eyed granddaughter – who looks up into her eyes and asks, “Grandma tell me again how you and Grandpa met. Were you really ‘arm candy’? What does that mean Grandma?”
My point…?
Writing about the insanity of Polygamy – Polygyny – Polyandry points to Monogamy…
Monogamy points to one relationship that sticks for a long time. Asking God to bless it… and it is called “Marriage” – a very quaint Christian concept of being faithful to one person for the rest of your life.
AND I SHOUT THIS LOUD AND CLEAR – “Marriage works… if you work with it!”
An old Sunday School Teacher of mine instilled a very odd idea in me that has stuck all these years… He said, “Boys you will get out of this what you put into it…”
Polygamy – Polygyny – Polyandry takes.
Marriage gives – 100% all the time.
~ Pastor Murray Lincoln ~
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Monday, December 31, 2007
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